110+ Bill Hybels Quotes On Marriage, Faith And Integrity

Bill Hybels was an American Clergyman and the founding and former senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. He was also the founder of the Global Leadership Summit, an annual event that brings together Christian leaders from around the world. He was a popular author and speaker, and his books, such as Courageous Leadership and The Power of a Whisper, have sold millions of copies. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Bill Hybels on leadership, marriage, faith.

Top 10 Bill Hybels Quotes

1. 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.
2. The local church is the hope of the world, and its future rests primarily in the hands of its leaders.
3. 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.
4. Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.
5. 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.
6. The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.
7. Leadership is not for the faint of heart
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.

Bill Hybels Short Quotes

• Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.
• Self awareness allows you to self-correct.
• Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
• Leaders have to figure it out when there is no road map.
• If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?
• Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader's arsenal.
• Our conduct will never change God's character.
• Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.
• We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.
• The grander the vision the greater the price tag.

Bill Hybels Quotes About Leadership

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

Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental. — Bill Hybels

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

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! — Bill Hybels

Coaching is the most important servant/leadership element in helping people accomplish their goals. — Bill Hybels

Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership. — Bill Hybels

The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels Quotes About Here To Re

God wants to father all of us until we're dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven. — Bill Hybels

Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection. — Bill Hybels

If you're a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels Quotes About God

Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

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

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

God made you on purpose, for a purpose — Bill Hybels

If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we'd be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today - not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

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

One thing is that life's great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what's been lost and freeing what's been enslaved . — Bill Hybels

The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it's okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it. — Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels Quotes About Pray

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. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud. — Bill Hybels

I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer, but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways. — Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels Quotes About Inspiring

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

Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There's just too much at stake. — Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels Quotes About Church

There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right. — Bill Hybels

The local church is the hope of the world. — Bill Hybels

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world. — Bill Hybels

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness. — Bill Hybels

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening. — Bill Hybels

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime. — Bill Hybels

The Church will never reach her full redemptive potential until men and women with the leadership gift step up and lead. — Bill Hybels

Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials. — Bill Hybels

If it's the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better. — Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels Quotes About Real

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity. — Bill Hybels

Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens. — Bill Hybels

More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat. — Bill Hybels

The real deal is always going to win in the end. — Bill Hybels

Bill Hybels Quotes About People

Don't get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment — Bill Hybels

People won't give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so. — Bill Hybels

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

People join organizations, they leave managers. — Bill Hybels

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

Bill Hybels Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Bill Hybels

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! — Bill Hybels

It’s the great temptation for small groups of people to slide into a state where they’re not quite telling each other the truth and they’re not quite celebrating each other. Instead, they tolerate each other, they accommodate each other, and they settle for sitting on the unspoken matters that separate them. — Bill Hybels

Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence. — Bill Hybels

Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did. — Bill Hybels

It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in Romans 12:8. Once you understand that God has given a gift, then training becomes more seriously. When you receive better training, you become more effective in the leadership position that God has assigned to you. — Bill Hybels

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

When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people. — Bill Hybels

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. — Bill Hybels

You may well have to simplify to live the life God is inviting you to live. — Bill Hybels

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

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

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

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

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 — Bill Hybels

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

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle. — Bill Hybels

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion. — Bill Hybels

God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers. — Bill Hybels

If you are anything like me you'll have to fight tooth-and-nail to stay in the game (evangelism). Because although the home runs have been invigorating, my batting average over the years is abysmally low. — Bill Hybels

God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him... people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God's activities and programs in this world. These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we're going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we're going to do this together. — Bill Hybels

Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels. — Bill Hybels

Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink. — Bill Hybels

You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

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

Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be. — Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level. — Bill Hybels

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

He's dangerous because when God talks to him Bob will do whatever God asks him to do at great cost, even if no one agrees, if it's contrary to the way the stream is going, if Bob feels God is in it he will do it. — Bill Hybels

It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person's lead. — Bill Hybels

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. — Bill Hybels

Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example. — Bill Hybels

Everyone wins when a leader gets better — Bill Hybels

You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source? — Bill Hybels

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

Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time. — Bill Hybels

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close. — Bill Hybels

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

You are the most difficult person you will ever lead. — Bill Hybels

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. — Bill Hybels

Leaders, your God-given job is not merely to preside over something, not to pontificate to your underlings how smart you are, not merely to preserve something from its gradual demise; it's to figure out what God wants to get done in this world, figure out what role you play in that, and then to move something or someone from here to there. — Bill Hybels

Life Lessons by Bill Hybels

1. Bill Hybels teaches us to be courageous and to take risks in order to achieve our goals and make a positive difference in the world.
2. He also encourages us to focus on our strengths and use them to serve others.
3. Lastly, he reminds us to stay humble and to strive for excellence in all aspects of our lives.