Top 140 Bill Hybels Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “If it’s the last thing I do, I will give every ounce of the rest of my life to helping leaders and churches get better.”

— Bill Hybels

102. “Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they’re left alone to settle, they’ll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.”

— Bill Hybels

103. “The Holy Spirit lives inside you and repeatedly whispers, “Have confidence – you’re part of God’s family now.”

— Bill Hybels

104. “If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can.”

— Bill Hybels

105. “The more varied the environments in which you exercise your leadership gift, the stronger that gift will become. You will become a far more effective leader.”

— Bill Hybels

106. “I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.”

— Bill Hybels

107. “People won’t give their best unless their leader challenges them to do so.”

— Bill Hybels

108. “I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.”

— Bill Hybels

109. “The grander the vision the greater the price tag.”

— Bill Hybels

110. “Don’t steamroll your way into a conversation before establishing any relational credibility.”

— Bill Hybels

111. “It’s heartbreaking to see how some people go through their entire lives held captive by debilitating fears. When you peel back all the layers of self-protection that cover up these destructive fears, you’ll often find one or two significant events at the core. These events may not even seem all that terrifying to the casual observer, but they were just scary enough to start tripping the dominoes, causing the person to erect walls of avoidance.”

— Bill Hybels

112. “Courageous people are ordinary people like you and me who began at some point to face their fears rather than run from them. When.”

— Bill Hybels

113. “Our conduct will never change God’s character.”

— Bill Hybels

114. “Destructive fear must be stopped in its tracks or it will undermine the life God invites us to live.”

— Bill Hybels

115. “More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat.”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

117. “Jesus is not directing the angelic choir, taking long naps, or doing crossword puzzles. He is completely focused on building his church, the hope of the world.”

— Bill Hybels

118. “Not only do you not do your best work in the “dangerously over-challenged” range, but if you stay in this range for very long, something in your life will break. I don’t care how resilient you are, how much energy you naturally possess, or how much mental toughness you think you have; something will break. You will not be exempt from this law. Your health, marriage, connection with your kids, relationship with God, emotional well-being – something is going to crack.”

— Bill Hybels

119. “In Paul’s day, instead of giving gold medals for winning first place in an Olympic event, a crown of olive or laurel leaves was placed on the winner’s head. By the time the athlete went home that night, the wreath would already be wilting and falling apart. Think of that. All that energy expended for a wreath that didn’t last beyond a day.”

— Bill Hybels

120. “It is our responsibility to make adjustments so we can live within God’s provision and be joyfully content whether He provides a little or a lot in any given season.”

— Bill Hybels

121. “If you are too busy or too proud to pray with your children, you are too busy and too proud.”

— Bill Hybels

122. “The Christian life is one of faith, where we find ourselves routinely overdriving our headlights but knowing it’s okay because God is in control and has a purpose behind it.”

— Bill Hybels

123. “Your culture will only ever be as healthy as the senior leader wants it to be.”

— Bill Hybels

124. “This is the only leadership life I get, my one and only shot at following God the way I feel him prompting me to do so. This isn’t some pre-game warm-up. It’s the game, and the clock is ticking!”

— Bill Hybels

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

— Bill Hybels

126. “If you’re too chicken to repent, then please don’t ever say Christianity is for weak people.”

— Bill Hybels

127. “Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.”

— Bill Hybels

128. “True friends love one another, even though we’re all a little quirky. We.”

— Bill Hybels

129. “When we fritter away our one and only life doing things that don’t really matter, we sacrifice the things that do matter.”

— Bill Hybels

130. “Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It’s walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we’ve been called and for which we’ve been created. It’s a lifestyle that allows us, when our heads hit the pillow at night, to reflect with gratitude that our day was well invested and the varied responsibilities of our lives are in order.”

— Bill Hybels

131. “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.”

— Bill Hybels

132. “Nothing neutralizes the redemptive potential of a church faster than trying to be all things to all people. It is impossible for any one church to do it all.”

— Bill Hybels

133. “The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.”

— Bill Hybels

134. “Nothing that matters in this world happens unless leaders lead it.”

— Bill Hybels

135. “Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God’s truth and faithfulness by saying, “God, I’m going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.”

— Bill Hybels

136. “Inauthenticity among the ranks of those claiming to be Christians can become an almost insurmountable barrier to belief.”

— Bill Hybels

137. “God’s preferred state for humankind is that we live free from fear, experiencing shalom, or peace. From Genesis to Revelation, Scripture is packed with references that emphasize God’s desire for a fear-free, peace-filled world.”

— Bill Hybels

138. “The question isn’t, “What do I want to get done in the next thirty days?” but, “Who do I want to become in this next season of my life?”

— Bill Hybels

139. “Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus. It’s walking away from innumerable lesser opportunities in favor of the few to which we’ve been called and for which we’ve been created.”

— Bill Hybels

140. “When your heart is filled every day by the kindness of the Father, you have enough of His grace overflowing that you can extend His grace to others.”

— Bill Hybels