Bill Hybels Quotes

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.

Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.

One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.

The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.

I soon began writing out my whole prayer and reading it back to God. Previously I'd get no further than "Dear God" and I'd already be thinking of the person I was going to meet for lunch or the board meeting agenda or what my family members and I would be doing later that evening. But when I began to move pen across paper, it became much easier to remain focused.

Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's peace and from his prevailing power, and a common result is that they feel overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, and defeated by a world operating with a take-no-prisoners approach.

The idea that God doesn't care about his children is rooted in a lie, plain and simple.

Keep on praying because the Father does listen. He loves our company, he wants us to endure in prayerfulness and he is eager to do whatever is best for us.

By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.

The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.

If you're tolerating sin in your life, my friend, don't waste your breath praying unless it's a prayer of confession.

God is righteous and just, holy and tender, responsive and sympathetic. He is willing--anxious even--to hear from you. Moreover, he is willing to act on your behalf.

We can have no deep, ongoing fellowship with God unless we obey him - totally.

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

God is committed to developing a people who will reflect his character in this world, and his character always expresses concern and compassion for the afflicted.