Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

Every disciple needs three types of relationships in his life. He needs a 'Paul' who can mentor him and challenge him. He needs a 'Barnabas' who can come along side and encourage him. And he needs a 'Timothy,' someone that he can pour his life into.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image. Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Saviour. Not to fill your head with a collection of biblicalfacts but to transform your life.

You are either in the Word and the Word is conforming you to the image of Jesus Christ, or you are in the world and the world is squeezing you into its mold.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.

The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.

Never do anything for a student that he he is capable of doing for himself. If you do you, you'll make him an educational cripple...a pedagogical paraplegic.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

So the first reason for studying Scripture is that it is a means of spiritual growth. There is none apart from the Word. It is God's primary tool to develop you as an individual.

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.

It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure. In fact, that's why it is unlike any other book. You may be an expert in a given field. If you read a book in that field two or three times you've got it. But that's never true of the Bible. Read it over and over again, and you'll see things that you've never seen before.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?

The will of God is found in the Word of God. The more a person grows, the more he begins to think instinctively and habitually from a divine perspective.

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

So it is with scripture. The word of God is there, able to transform your life. But you must probe for it. You have to penetrate the surface with more than just a cursory glance.

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed with Christ, the pastor has been used by the Lord.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #‎ change our lives.

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

There was no identity crisis in the life of Jesus Christ. He knew who He was. He knew where He had come from, and why he was here. And he knew where He was going. And when you are that liberated, then you can serve.

The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?