Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.
BILL HYBELSGod led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Build something with enduring value.
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Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
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Personally, I’ve never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop…is beyond me!
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Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!
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We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become ‘self feeders.’
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I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand-a hand never dirtied by serving-and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus.
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Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.
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Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
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The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
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Humility enables us to learn from each other.
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Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
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You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
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If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.
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