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Bill Hybels on Prayer

born 1951 United States

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19 quotes

As you walk with God, your faith will grow, your confidence will increase and your prayers will have real power.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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)

Prayer is a bridge from despair to hope.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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)

Developing prayer fitness is similar to developing physical fitness: we must follow a pattern in order to stay balanced.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

Our prayers can be more than empty wishes, vain hopes or feeble aspirations – but only when they are prayed from faith-filled hearts.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

Confession is probably the most neglected area of personal prayer.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

The greatest prayer motivator in existence is answered prayer.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

Adoration in prayer purges our spirit and prepares us to listen to God.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

Don't let your prayers turn into a wish list for Santa Claus. Worship God and praise him when you come to him in prayer.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

By forcing us to look closely at our requests, prayer purifies us.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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)

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)

How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? "Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich."

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

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.

Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bill Hybels (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.