Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There's no one without significant creative potential.

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

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

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

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

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

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

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

Eighty-five percent of spirituality is a good night's sleep.

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.

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

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

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

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

The secret to concentration is elimination.

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

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.

Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

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

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

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?