If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.
BILL HYBELSPrayerless 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.
More Bill Hybels Quotes
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Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them
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Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.
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God made you on purpose, for a purpose
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I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.
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One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.
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The real deal is always going to win in the end.
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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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The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.
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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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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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It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan
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The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them
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I’m praying to the God who has always been faithful to me, who has never let me down no matter how frightened I was or how difficult the situation looked.
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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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This is the power and the promise of full-throttle faith, of living a life fueled solely by God.
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