Top 140 Bill Hybels Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.”

— Bill Hybels

52. “You can live and lead small, live and lead safe, live and lead selfishly, or you can pursue a grander vision.”

— Bill Hybels

53. “The worst days of leadership beat the best days of being an onlooker.”

— Bill Hybels

54. “One of the greatest thrills in all of life is to feel the hand of God working through you and to be a part of the working reality of the church engaged in a movement larger than self.”

— Bill Hybels

55. “If a goal is really important to me, I discipline myself in order to achieve it.”

— Bill Hybels

56. “God didn’t make you a leader to respond to stuff all day. He made you a leader to move things forward.”

— Bill Hybels

57. “Great leadership is by definition relentlessly developmental.”

— Bill Hybels

58. “Don’t get so addicted to vision that the people feel like equipment.”

— Bill Hybels

59. “Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.”

— Bill Hybels

60. “Every church, every team, every organization demands and deserves a “vision embodier,” someone whose life values and commitments personify the vision. Cut them and they bleed the vision.”

— Bill Hybels

61. “Most people feel best about themselves when they have given their very best.”

— Bill Hybels

62. “Leaders need to have a ruthless commitment to resolving relational conflict regardless of how bad it feels.”

— Bill Hybels

63. “If we were to boil down Christianity to its core, we’d be left with simply this: relationship with God. The living, loving God of the universe has spoken throughout history, and still speaks today – not just to pastors or priests, but to anyone who will listen. God will speak to you.”

— Bill Hybels

64. “Effective leaders are always monitoring vision leakage.”

— Bill Hybels

65. “Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.”

— Bill Hybels

66. “If I’ve learned anything about prayer, it’s that desperation drives discipline.”

— Bill Hybels

67. “Leadership requires a non-stop demand of fortitude from Day 1 to the end.”

— Bill Hybels

68. “Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.”

— Bill Hybels

69. “We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

71. “If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.”

— Bill Hybels

72. “It takes a great deal of courage to follow another person’s lead.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

74. “God delights in pouring his favor on obedient risk takers.”

— Bill Hybels

75. “The Lord’s Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God’s attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.”

— Bill Hybels

76. “Prayerless people cut themselves off from God’s prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten down, pushed around, defeated. Surprising numbers of people are willing to settle for lives like that.”

— Bill Hybels

77. “Leadership in church is one of the biggest challenges that the Church is facing because without strong leadership, the church rarely lives out its redemptive potentials.”

— Bill Hybels

78. “The best gift you can give a human being is an introduction to a God who loves them.”

— Bill Hybels

79. “We will probably have to pay a price for devoting our lives to building the kingdom of God. Jesus did.”

— Bill Hybels

80. “You can never underestimate the amount of energy and frequency you must give to vision casting. You can never underestimate it.”

— Bill Hybels

81. “Live each day with an open ear toward heaven, eager to respond to any whisper from God.”

— Bill Hybels

82. “Effective leaders do not fear passion. They welcome it. But from time to time passionate discussions digress into personal attacks, and real people get really hurt. In my view, leaders must head that off before it happens.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

84. “Every single decision you make as a leader has an effect on the spirit of those you lead.”

— Bill Hybels

85. “Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.”

— Bill Hybels

86. “Life is too short and the world too compassion-starved for you to keep subsisting in situations that drag you down and curtail your potential to help advance the Kingdom. There’s just too much at stake.”

— Bill Hybels

87. “If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.”

— Bill Hybels

88. “God wants to father all of us until we’re dead sure of his approval, his guiding power and his promise of heaven.”

— Bill Hybels

89. “One thing is that life’s great moments evolve from simple acts of cooperation with God’s mysterious promptings-nudges that always lean toward finding what’s been lost and freeing what’s been enslaved .”

— Bill Hybels

90. “Humility enables us to learn from each other.”

— Bill Hybels

91. “Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

93. “Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.”

— Bill Hybels

94. “Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?”

— Bill Hybels

95. “Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.”

— Bill Hybels

96. “It’s incredible to realize that what we do each day has meaning in the big picture of God’s plan.”

— Bill Hybels

97. “Debt comes from wanting more than God’s current provision for your life and arranging other ways to get it.”

— Bill Hybels

98. “I can usually sense that a leading is from the Holy Spirit when it calls me to humble myself, serve somebody, encourage somebody or give something away. Very rarely will the evil one lead us to do those kinds of things.”

— Bill Hybels

99. “You don’t have to be any more talented, any richer, any slimmer, any smarter, any more or less of anything to partner with God. All you have to be is willing to be used by him in everyday way.”

— Bill Hybels

100. “Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vision deeply is the extent to which whose followers believe the leader will own it.”

— Bill Hybels