Bill Hybels Quotes
Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
Quotes to Explore
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I have faith in the jury system.
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
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I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
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Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
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A prime minister's job is to make sure the government works for those who have elected him, and not for big corporations.
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I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
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I believe that with enough practice and good faith, you can learn to recognize when the work is achieved.
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I use the word "god" a lot, and I'm not sure if I know what I believe god is. I don't believe that when we die, that's it. It's almost like a logical faith. I logically don't believe that all this stuff surrounding us is generated from dust. But I'm also not like "Jesus Christ came down to save us." It's almost selfish to think that human beings, on this plane of reality, are the end of it.
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Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
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A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
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Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
