If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.
BILL HYBELSCoaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
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Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.
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I’m praying to a God who wants to bear fruit through me, and I am going to trust that he is going to use me tonight. Not because of who I am, but because of who he is. He is faithful.
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It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.
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The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.
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I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God’s miracle-working ways.
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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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There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
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it’s to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there.
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For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, ‘This is me. I’m not proud of it – in fact, I’m a little embarrassed by it – but this is who I am.
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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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Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.
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Our conduct will never change God’s character.
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If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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