Bill Hybels Quotes

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.

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.

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!

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.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

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

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.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

If leaders don’t have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

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