Bill Hybels Quotes
Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I can't understand why someone wouldn't have a degree of sympathy for people that had to flee their country, travel to try and find their home somewhere, and nobody wants them. How could you not be a little bit sympathetic?
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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I shall really be very unhappy unless you give me the sort of courage that makes one forget he is afraid.
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I'm one of those people who think I can learn something from everybody.
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When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.
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We have to turn away people all the time if we don't have space.
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Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow spiritually?
