Bill Hybels: Prayer

Bill Hybels is American writer. Explore interesting quotes on prayer.

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

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“People who are serious about something always make room for it in their schedules. If prayer is important to you, then you'll find time to do it.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“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.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“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.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“One prayer routine that is balanced and easy to remember is found in the word ACTS, an acrostic whose four letters stand for adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“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.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

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

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

“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.”

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

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

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)

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

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)