Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.

Show me a man's closest companions and I can make a fairly accurate guess as to what sort of man he is, as well as what sort of man he is likely to become.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.

There's no one without significant creative potential.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that's up to you.

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

The genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

The home marks a child for life.

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.