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
-
I have faith in the jury system.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
-
For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.
-
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.
-
Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
-
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
-
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
-
Faith is the biggest principle that the Bible teaches us.
-
I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.
-
Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
-
Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
-
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'.
-
Prayer is the most important thing that I do.
-
Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.
-
It's dangerous faith in our untamed Savior that leads us to the joy we crave.
-
The natives of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which abound in their seas and rivers. If the fish do not come in due season, and the Indians are hungry, A Nootka wizard will make an image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by a prayer to the fish to come, will cause them to arrive at once.
-
A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
-
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
-
Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
