Quotes by Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels

American church figure and author

Lived from: 1951 -

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 12 december 1951

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  • God isn't interested in stock phrases. Talk to him. Talk to the Father sincerely.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
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  • God-honoring prayers are not simply shopping lists. They are more than cries for help, strength, mercy and miracles. Authentic prayer should include worship, submission, requests, and confessions.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
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  • He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it.
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  • 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.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
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  • How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    ― Bill Hybels
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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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  • I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way.
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  • If Christ's followers aren't growing, it is because they are not making a habit of evaluating their lives. They don't step back and ask, What's working and what's not working?
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  • If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.
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  • If the request is wrong, God says, No. If the timing is wrong, God says, Slow. If you are wrong, God says, Grow. But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, Go!
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  • If you have pumped your fist at God, the good news is that you can come back into fellowship with him right this minute.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    ― Bill Hybels
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  • If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
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  • If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
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  • If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    ― Bill Hybels
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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.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    ― Bill Hybels
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  • Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.
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  • More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.
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  • Never forget that if you are God's child through Jesus Christ, you are praying to a Father who couldn't love you more than he already does.
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  • One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.
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  • One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
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