Who You Are When No One's Looking Quotes

“Whatever your quitting point, I challenge you to test God’s truth and faithfulness by saying, “God, I’m going to proceed, trusting you to empower me to crash through this quitting point and come out in one piece on the other side.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Every time you break through a quitting point, you prove to yourself that quitting points are not as solid as some people think they are. With God’s help you can go through them more often than not. Every time you break through one, a victory is gained in heaven and in your life. Endurance has grown stronger in your spirit. The next time, even if the mountain is higher, you will have more endurance to help you climb it. Quitting points are painful—Jesus knows that even better than we do. He endured all the way to the cross. Every time the soldiers plucked his beard or someone slapped his face or the whip tore open his back, all hell screamed, “Quit!” When the nails went through his hands, bystanders ridiculed him and he couldn’t feel his Father’s presence anymore, his whole soul screamed, “Quit!” But by strength from above and by his own resolve, Jesus Christ crashed through his quitting points and died the death that makes salvation possible for every human being. I’m glad we follow a Savior who “for the joy set before him he endured the cross,” as Hebrews 12:2 attests. I’m glad that endurance, even though it will never be offered by the state lottery, can be developed. And I’m glad the Holy Spirit says to us every time we come to a quitting point, “Crash through it—I will give you the strength.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“The Holy Spirit lives inside you and repeatedly whispers, “Have confidence—you’re part of God’s family now.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.” He adds, “It is the only decent way to live.” I completely agree, but there’s more. In addition to delaying gratification, discipline demands that you also make key decisions in advance—relationally, physically, financially and spiritually. Let’s keep going. Relationally. Delayed gratification is important first and foremost in training children. A lot of parents are unwilling to make the sacrifices that are necessary in order to meet their children’s deepest needs. A promotion at work, a TV show or a nap on the sofa may all seem much more enticing than playing Candy Land with a three-year-old. There’s no question about it: it is hard to devote yourself wholeheartedly and regularly to bringing up your children properly. But hard work during the children’s early, impressionable years usually forms strong character in them. Parents who discipline themselves to do this, trusting God for the strength to keep going, are likely to enjoy the payoff of a lifetime of solid relationships with their children.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“If you’re too chicken to repent, then please don’t ever say Christianity is for weak people.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Courageous people are ordinary people like you and me who began at some point to face their fears rather than run from them. When”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“You are the light of the world.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Worry a little less about the darkness, and spend a little more time thinking about what you can do to leverage the light that you’ve been given.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“The world writes books with titles like Think and Grow Rich, but if Jesus were writing for today’s market, he’d title his book Love and Give Everything Away.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“To love as God loves, in other words, you may have to part with whatever is most precious to you for the sake of someone else.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“To love as Jesus loves we have to put truth telling ahead of peace keeping. We also have to put the other person’s well-being ahead of the comfort level of our relationship.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“the well-being of the other person is more important than the current comfort level in the relationship.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“truth telling is more important than peace keeping.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Does your problem seem bigger than life, bigger than God himself? It isn’t. God is infinitely bigger than any problem you ever had or will have, and every time you call a problem unsolvable, you mock God.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“It takes endurance to get on your knees and stay there until God supernaturally ignites a fresh thought in your mind.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“vision is the God-given ability to see possible solutions to the everyday problems of life.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Don’t allow the other demands of your day to overshadow your intimate time with God.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Cowards don’t last long on their spiritual pilgrimages before they shrivel up and disappear. It takes enormous courage to repent and become a Christian, and then another strong dose of courage to follow God’s leadings throughout your life.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“The only way we can enjoy a relationship with God is by coming to Jesus Christ, our hands outstretched and empty, and saying, “Lord, I want to follow you. Please take me into your family, wash me clean, give me new clothes and make me more like you.” And Jesus will do exactly that. He will take us as we are and assure us that we are his forever. Then—slowly at first, but surely—he will mold us and shape us until we look just like him.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“Character is not what we have done, but rather who we are.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“we will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God’s values occupy our lives.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“What’s wrong in our world will not be set right until people who love God and who refuse to cave to these overwhelming challenges put the things they believe into action, things like courage and discipline and love.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise

“When Christ- followers act from a place of godly character—when they keep the big picture in mind, when they put others’ needs ahead of their own, when they order lives according to kingdom priorities—things change. Big things change.”
― Bill Hybels, Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise