Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

The secret to concentration is elimination.

God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.

If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.