Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
BILL HYBELSAuthentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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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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The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
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Life’s great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings.
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There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.
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If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
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And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.
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If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.
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If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.
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Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.
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If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.
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Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.
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God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
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Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships.
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