Bill Hybels > Quotes

“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, Courageous Leadership

“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

“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

“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, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

“The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”
― Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

“If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.”
― Bill Hybels, Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

“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.”
― Bill Hybels

“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, Becoming a Contagious Christian

“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

“Pray when you're alone. Pray when you're with a lot of people. Pray when you're in small groups. Pray on your way in; pray on your way out. Pray in your closet, in your car, at your desk. Pray morning prayers, pray mealtime prayers, pray in between mealtimes. Pray fervently, expectantly, and unself-consciously. Pray when you're burdened, worried, sick, or brokenhearted. Pray when you're soaring, setting records, or dancing on a mountaintop. Pray when you're up, and pray when you're down. Pray when you're healthy, when you're sick, when you feel like it, and when you don't. (Especially when you don't.)”
― Bill Hybels, Just Walk Across the Room: Simple Steps Pointing People to Faith

“Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It’s walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we’ve been called and for which we’ve been created.”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“Leaders should never apologize for the strength of feeling that accompanies their God-given visions. God designed leaders to experience their longing, their desire, and their drive deeply, and to express it fully. And when they do, they energize others.”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“The question isn’t, “What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?” but, “Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God’s truth and faithfulness by saying, “God, I’m going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner”
― Bill Hybels, Too Busy Not to Pray

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

“I believe that the great tragedy of the church in our time has been its failure to recognize the importance of the spiritual gift of leadership. It appears to me that only a fraction of pastors worldwide are exercising the spiritual gift of leadership, organizing the church around it, and deploying church members through it. The results, in terms of church growth and worldwide spiritual impact, are staggering.”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“it’s time to make a decision: I will learn what disciplines are necessary to fuel my prayer life, and I will practice these disciplines regularly, without fail.”
― Bill Hybels, Too Busy Not to Pray

“It is our responsibility to make adjustments so we can live within God’s provision and be joyfully content whether He provides a little or a lot in any given season.”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“My selection process is based on “three Cs”: first character, then competence, and finally chemistry with me and with the rest of the team. Character. Competence. Chemistry.”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“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 , Axiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

“leaders are at their very best when they are raising up leaders around them.”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“who love God but spend more than what God has chosen to provide. They incur large amounts of debt and experience the shame and pressure that accompanies it. And they wind up feeling overwhelmed.”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter your Soul

“In Paul's day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner's head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn't last beyond a day.”
― Bill Hybels

“a leadership development plan has to address these three phases: Identifying emerging leaders Investing in the development of emerging leaders Entrusting responsibility to emerging leaders”
― Bill Hybels, Courageous Leadership

“True friends love one another, even though we’re all a little quirky. We”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul

“Every time you break through a quitting point, you prove to yourself that quitting points are not as solid as some people think they are. With God’s help you can go through them more often than not. Every time you break through one, a victory is gained in heaven and in your life. Endurance has grown stronger in your spirit. The next time, even if the mountain is higher, you will have more endurance to help you climb it. Quitting points are painful—Jesus knows that even better than we do. He endured all the way to the cross. Every time the soldiers plucked his beard or someone slapped his face or the whip tore open his back, all hell screamed, “Quit!” When the nails went through his hands, bystanders ridiculed him and he couldn’t feel his Father’s presence anymore, his whole soul screamed, “Quit!” But by strength from above and by his own resolve, Jesus Christ crashed through his quitting points and died the death that makes salvation possible for every human being. I’m glad we follow a Savior who “for the joy set before him he endured the cross,” as Hebrews 12:2 attests. I’m glad that endurance, even though it will never be offered by the state lottery, can be developed. And I’m glad the Holy Spirit says to us every time we come to a quitting point, “Crash through it—I will give you the strength.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.”
― Bill Hybels, Simplify: Ten Practices to Unclutter Your Soul