Top 15 Bill Hybels Quotes

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.

A key ingredient in authentic Christianity is time. Not leftover time, not throwaway time, but quality time. Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried, uninterrupted time.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.

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.

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

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

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.

If you have pumped your fist at God, the good news is that you can come back into fellowship with him right this minute.

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

Sin is plenty strong enough to create an ever-widening gap in one's relationship with God. The wider the gap, the less likely we are to pray. And the less we pray, the wider the gap becomes.

The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.

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

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

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.