Top 140 Bill Hybels Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Vision is a picture of the future that produces passion.”

— Bill Hybels

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2. “The local church is the hope of the world.”

— Bill Hybels

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3. “Self awareness allows you to self-correct.”

— Bill Hybels

4. “God made you on purpose, for a purpose.”

— Bill Hybels

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5. “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

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6. “Everyone wins when a leader gets better.”

— Bill Hybels

7. “Storms draw something out of us that calm seas don’t.”

— Bill Hybels

8. “Many leadership problems are driven by low self-awareness.”

— Bill Hybels

9. “There is nothing like the local church when the local church is working right.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

11. “People join organizations, they leave managers.”

— Bill Hybels

12. “The only way to motivate people is to live a motivated life in front of them.”

— Bill Hybels

13. “The real deal is always going to win in the end.”

— Bill Hybels

14. “Leadership grit begets grit. Lead by example.”

— Bill Hybels

15. “The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It’s the presence of a reconciling spirit.”

— Bill Hybels

16. “Your energy and the ability to energize others is more valuable than your time.”

— Bill Hybels

17. “You are the most difficult person you will ever lead.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

19. “Church is what you do. Church is who you are. Church is the human outworking of the person of Jesus Christ. Let’s not go to Church, let’s be the Church.”

— Bill Hybels

20. “The heart and soul of the Christian life is learning to hear God’s voice and then developing the courage to do what he asks us to do.”

— Bill Hybels

21. “Build something with enduring value.”

— Bill Hybels

22. “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.”

— Bill Hybels

23. “You’re a leader. It’s your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don’t apologize to anybody.”

— Bill Hybels

24. “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

25. “It’s one thing to see a vision; it’s another thing to be seized by a vision.”

— Bill Hybels

26. “You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

28. “You cannot do leadership without a source of regenerative strength. What is your source?”

— Bill Hybels

29. “It’s not the things I don’t understand about the Bible that bother me; it’s the things I understand with perfect clarity and don’t comply with that keep me up at night.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

31. “It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.”

— Bill Hybels

32. “If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”

— Bill Hybels

33. “Vision is the most powerful weapon in the leader’s arsenal.”

— Bill Hybels

34. “If there is ever a time crying out for courageous leadership, its now.”

— Bill Hybels

35. “Authentic Christians are persons who stand apart from others. Their character seems deeper, their ideas fresher, their spirit softer, their courage greater, their leadership stronger, their concerns wider, their compassion more genuine and their convictions more concrete.”

— Bill Hybels

36. “People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

38. “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 of Jesus.”

— Bill Hybels

39. “Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.”

— Bill Hybels

40. “Leadership is not for the faint of heart.”

— Bill Hybels

41. “When you get to the end will God say, “Well done,” or, “What was up with that?””

— Bill Hybels

42. “There isn’t a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.”

— Bill Hybels

43. “Whenever you see something going well – whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world – look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.”

— Bill Hybels

44. “Visionary people face the same problems everyone else faces; but rather than get paralyzed by their problems, visionaries immediately commit themselves to finding a solution.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

46. “If you don’t change your schedule, you’ll be the same person you’ve always been.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

48. “A leader’s most valuable asset is not their time but their energy and ability to energize others.”

— Bill Hybels

49. “One of the greatest joys of leadership is assembling and knitting together teams of fantastic people.”

— Bill Hybels

50. “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.”

— Bill Hybels