Bill Hybels Quotes

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Prayerless 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.

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

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

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

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.

The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them

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

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.

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

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.

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

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

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

God didn't make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.

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.

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.