Bill Hybels Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.

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

Leadership is not for the faint of heart

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

People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.

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

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.

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

Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.

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.

Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.

Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.

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

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

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.

Church work ought to be at its core the work of loving people like God loves them

The local church is the hope of the world.

Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me!

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

When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"

God made you on purpose, for a purpose

The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.

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

You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.

You don't have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way

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

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.

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 in the world.

Everyone wins when a leader gets better

One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

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.

Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.

It's one thing to see a vision; it's another thing to be seized by a vision.

Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.