Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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

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

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

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

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

The home marks a child for life.

The secret to concentration is elimination.

It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.