Quotes from Bill Hybels

If you're attempting to do the work of evangelism and your life is stuffed with believers, you'll find yourself out of work pretty quickly. What's the point of saving the "already saved"?

What's wrong in our world will not be set right until people who love God and who refuse to cave to these overwhelming challenges put the things they believe into action, things like courage and discipline and love.

You are the light of the world.

we will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God's values occupy our lives.

Character is not what we have done, but rather who we are.

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.

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.

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

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

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

Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don't.

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

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

To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.

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

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.

Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.

The tithe is a wonderful goal but a terrible place to stop.