Bill Hybels Quotes

The reality is that our God is good. It's in his nature to be good; it's who he is--a giving God, a blessing God, an encouraging God, a nurturing God, an empowering God, a loving God. This is the God who willingly waits for your call.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

The key is to practice praying - and to practice praying regularly, privately, sincerely and specifically.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.

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.

The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.

Supplications are requests that you make of God. And truly, nothing is too big for God to handle or too small for him to be interested in.

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

If your ear is open to the afflicted, God will keep his ear open to you.

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.