Bill Hybels Quotes

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.

When the Bible speaks of God's love for us and the kind of love we are to have for him and for other people, the word is always apage, signifying a commitment to act.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.

The cross is the place where, and the means by which, God loved us to the uttermost.

It will never be about our love for God. It will always be about His magnificent love for us.

Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.

He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love.

We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us.

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

Earthly love… is temporal and slight so that is has to be given again and again in order for us to feel any sense of security; but God’s love, God’s voice and presence, would instill our souls with such affirmation we would need nothing more and would cause us to love other people so much we would be willing to die for them.

You'll never be happy if you can't figure out that loving people is all there is. And that it's more important to love than be loved. Because that is when you feel love, by loving somebody.

I really only love God as much as I love the person I love the least.

The more we love, and the more unlikely people we love, the more we resemble God - who, after all, loves ornery creatures like us.

Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. The only love that completes us is the love of God, and the love of God is the love of everyone.

Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion. But strictly speaking, there is no call to that. Service is what I bring to the relationship and is the reflection of my identification with the nature of God.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

The mistake we make, is when we seek to be beloved, instead of loving.

God teaches us to love by putting some unlovely people around us.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.