Bill Hybels Quotes

All our words and acts are passing in review before God.

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

My legacy doesn't matter. It isn't important that I be remembered. It's important that when I stand before the Lord, he says, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' I want to finish strong.

The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'Why did you do that?' This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I don't care about my character here on earth. I don't care about what other people think or say about me, all I care about is my standing before the Lord.

Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.

Everyone will be judged one day, but it's not up to me to judge somebody.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

The bottom line is in heaven!

I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'

The deeds we do, the words we say,Into still air they seem to fleet;We count them ever past;But they shall last -In the dread judgment theyAnd we shall meet.

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

My belief in a day of reckoning keeps me on the straight and narrow.

As individuals, we will be judged in our lives by the totality of our actions. Not one thing will stand out. And I think that's how we get judged by our colleagues and that's how we get judged by the good lord.

I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Let us preach Christ, let us be faithful to proclaiming the Gospel, but let's leave judgment in the hands of God.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

… a walking day of judgment

I am against an adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause of an adjournment: if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought.