Bill Hybels famous quotes

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Ears #World #Noise

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
-- Bill Hybels

#Cooperation #Mysterious #Moments

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
-- Bill Hybels

#Healing #Suffering #Church

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Heart #Voice

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live.
-- Bill Hybels

#Live Life #May #Simplify

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Jesus #Church #Christ

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Jesus #Hands #Nails

Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.
-- Bill Hybels

#Heaven #Each Day #Ears

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.
-- Bill Hybels

#Church

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
-- Bill Hybels

#Decision #Leader #Spirit

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.
-- Bill Hybels

#Definitions #Great Leadership #Great Leader

The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
-- Bill Hybels

#Hands #Leader #Church

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Who I Am #Littles #Facts

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
-- Bill Hybels

#Sea #Storm #Calm

Leadership is not for the faint of heart
-- Bill Hybels

#Heart #Faint Of Heart

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.
-- Bill Hybels

#Leadership #People #Creative

A leader's most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.
-- Bill Hybels

#Leader #Energy #Assets

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.
-- Bill Hybels

#Difficult #Persons

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.
-- Bill Hybels

#Community #Spirit #Conflict

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.
-- Bill Hybels

#Demand #Fortitude #Ends

The real deal is always going to win in the end.
-- Bill Hybels

#Real #Winning #Ends

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.
-- Bill Hybels

#Wise #Believe #Leader

When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. 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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Country #Jesus #Life Changing

I'm praying to the Creator of the world, the King of the universe, the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-faithful God. I'm praying to the God who made the mountains and who can move them if necessary. 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. 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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Kings #Powerful #Moving

Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.
-- Bill Hybels

#Powerful #Leader #Vision

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Motivation #Attention #Undivided Attention

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.
-- Bill Hybels

#Passion #Vision #Produce

This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn't some pre-game warm-up. It's the game, and the clock is ticking!
-- Bill Hybels

#Games #Way #Clock

We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
-- Bill Hybels

#World #Cry

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them.
-- Bill Hybels

#People #Temptation #Groups

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Life Is Too Short #Compassion

It's incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God's plan
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Each Day

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
-- Bill Hybels

#Discipline #Heaven #Rewards

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
-- Bill Hybels

#Broken #Leader #Legacy

The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
-- Bill Hybels

#Giving #Introduction #Best Gift

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.
-- Bill Hybels

#Coincidence #Praying

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.
-- Bill Hybels

#Our World #Light #Leader

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
-- Bill Hybels

#Leadership #Character #Long

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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Reality #Self #Hands

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead.
-- Bill Hybels

#Deals #Persons

Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
-- Bill Hybels

#Levels #Noise #Lord

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.
-- Bill Hybels

#Hate #Real #Teaching

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.
-- Bill Hybels

#Father #Appreciate #Heaven

You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. 
-- Bill Hybels

#Jobs #Passion #Leader

People join organizations, they leave managers.
-- Bill Hybels

#Organization #People

The local church is the hope of the world.
-- Bill Hybels

#Church #World

Everyone wins when a leader gets better
-- Bill Hybels

#Winning #Leader #Get Better

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.
-- Bill Hybels

#Vision #Safe #Pursue

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.
-- Bill Hybels

#Track

How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
-- Bill Hybels

#Prayer #Moving #Focus

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.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Spiritual #Mistake

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.
-- Bill Hybels

#Energy #Ability #Valuable

Our conduct will never change God's character.
-- Bill Hybels

#Character #Never Change

God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him... people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God's activities and programs in this world. These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we're going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we're going to do this together.
-- Bill Hybels

#Men #Unique #People

The grander the vision the greater the price tag.
-- Bill Hybels

#Vision #Tag

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
-- Bill Hybels

#Self #Awareness #Self Awareness

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.
-- Bill Hybels

#Goal #Stewardship #Wonderful

God wants us...to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
-- Bill Hybels

#Prayer #Father #Want

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.
-- Bill Hybels

#Team #Knitting #People

Religion is spelled 'D-O', because it consists of the things people do try to somehow gain God's forgiveness and favor. But the problem is that you never know when you've done enough. But thankfully, Christianity is spelled differently. It's spelled 'D-O-N-E', which means that what we could never for ourselves, Christ has already done for us. To become a real Christian is to humbly receive God's gift of forgiveness and to commit to following His leadership.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Real #Mean

Build something with enduring value.
-- Bill Hybels

#Endure #Values

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right.  Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking.  Its potential is unlimited.  No other organization on earth is like the church.  Nothing even comes close.
-- Bill Hybels

#Life Changing #Organization #Community

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
-- Bill Hybels

#Levels #Behavior #Humans

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.
-- Bill Hybels

#Vision #Church

The rest of the story from Acts 1:8 explains that Christ-followers have a mission while here on earth. They are to be Christ’s witnesses all over this planet. It’s as if Christ said, “Think you’re missing the book smarts, the street smarts, the looks, the talent, or the speaking ability to accomplish this mission? Don’t be concerned with those things, because you have my mountain-moving, life-transforming, death-defying power on your side.”
-- Bill Hybels

#Smart #Moving #Book

Authentic 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.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christian #Character #Compassion

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.
-- Bill Hybels

#Christianity #Communicate #Walks

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.
-- Bill Hybels

#Spiritual #Authenticity

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
-- Bill Hybels

#Leader #Helping