Bill Hybels Quotes about Prayer

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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.

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

Bill Hybels, Dale Larsen, Sandy Larsen (1994). “Prayer: Too Busy Not to Pray”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

Bill Hybels

Jesus, Prayer, Attention

"Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

Bill Hybels

Prayer, Father, Want

Bill Hybels (2012). “Too busy not to pray”, p.60, SPCK

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.

Bill Hybels

Prayer, Fall, Writing

"Too Busy Not to Pray". Book by Bill Hybels, 2008.