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William Hybels is the founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois, one of the most attended churches in North America, with an average attendance of nearly 24,000 as of 2011. He is the founder of the Willow Creek Association and creator of the Global Leadership Summit. Hybels is also an author of a number of Christian books, especially on the subject of Christian leadership.

✵ 12. December 1951   •   Other names 빌 하이벨스
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Bill Hybels Quotes

“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)