Bill Hybels

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Bill Hybels

Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church,…

— Bill Hybels

Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and…

— Bill Hybels

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked…

— Bill Hybels

If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them.…

— 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…

— Bill Hybels

The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a…

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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…

— Bill Hybels

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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

We all have strengths, weaknesses and blind spots. In fact, an average person has 3.4 blind spots.

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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

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

— Bill Hybels

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

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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

Leadership is the catalytic gift that energizes, directs, and empowers all the other gifts.

— Bill Hybels

The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God's voice and then developing the courage to do what…

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

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

— 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…

— Bill Hybels