Bill Hybels: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

Business

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

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Affliction

“I sometimes wonder if my requests are legitimate. So I'm honest with God. I say, "Lord, I don't know if I have the right to ask for this. I don't know how I should pray about it. But I hand it over to your now, and if you'll tell me how to pray, I'll pray your way."”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Way

“If the disciples were capable of making wrong requests - requests that were self-serving, patently materialistic, shortsighted or immature - I feel sure that we are too. Fortunately God loves us too much to say yes to inappropriate requests.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

Love , God , Feeling

“If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Children , Feeling , Parent

“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.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Family , Thinking , Reading

“When I lump all my sins together and confess them en masse, I neglect to feel the pain or embarrassment or shame that should be elicited in me.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

Pain , Feeling

“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.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Strong

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

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

Life

“Creating planets didn't seem to be much of a problem for God. Neither was raising the dead. Nothing is too difficult for God to handle, but we won't see much proof of this until we actually ask him to handle it.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Problem , Dead

“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.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , People , World , Affliction

“When the spirit of adoration takes over and we begin pondering God's attributes, we soon say from the heart, 'I am praying to a tremendous God!' Which only motivates us to keep on praying.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Motivation , Heart

“If the request is wrong, God says, "No." If the timing is wrong, God says, "Slow." If you are wrong, God says, "Grow." But if the request is right, the timing is right and you are right, God says, "Go!"”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

God , Time

“The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.”

Bill Hybels

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)