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If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Bill Hybels

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Bill Hybels
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 12
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Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Kalamazoo
Michigan
Discipline
Learned
Prayer
Anything
Desperation
Drives

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