Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

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

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

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.

There's no one without significant creative potential.

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

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

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.

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

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

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.

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

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

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

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

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.

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

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

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

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

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

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

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.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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

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

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.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

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

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

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

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

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

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

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

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.

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

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