Bill Hybels Quotes
When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
Quotes to Explore
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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I'm a vocabulary nerd.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.
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You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.
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I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.
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Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.
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I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.
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If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?
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I can't say we will invest in any significant way with this first fund. But hopefully, when we move onto the fund number two, India will be a market that we pursue.
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Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
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When we make a habit of prayer, we stay constantly tuned to God's presence and open to receive his blessings.
