Howard G. Hendricks famous quotes

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Choices #Consequence

How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Size #Bigs

You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Leadership #Epic #Teach

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

#Real #Study

A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Belief #Arguing

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Christian #Challenges #Mentor

God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Stars #Servant

A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Heart #Leader #Influence

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Spiritual #Mean #Growth

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Able #Scripture #Study

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Teacher #Epic #Best Teacher

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Leader #Reader

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Jesus #Mold #World

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Curiosity #Helping #Transformation

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Problem

It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #People #Sin

You cannot impart what you do not possess.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#School #Epic #Graduates

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Teaching #Epic #Today

You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Distance #Epic #Impact

My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Teaching #Heart #Impact

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Teacher #Epic #Taught

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Christian #Epic #Generations

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Common #Unfulfilled Potential

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Weakness

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

#Epic #Leader

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Thinking #Perspective #Divine

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Heart #Men #Tape

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Teacher #Educational #Students

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Thinking #People

If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Discipleship #Accused

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

#Christian #People #Ordinary

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Jesus #Identity #Christ

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Apathy #Curse

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

#Assessment #Church #Engagement

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

#Book #Thinking #Twenties

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Believe #Thinking #Study

The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Spiritual #Mean #Maturity

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Home #Religion #Doe

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

#Genius #Study #Exposure

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Doe #Study #Old Saying

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Maturity #Hands #Growth

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

#Prayer #Confused #Study

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Light #Shining

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Spiritual #Maturity #Essentials

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

#Letters #His Love #Way

There's no one without significant creative potential.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Creative #Significant

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

#Epic #Able

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Traffic

Heaven is a person: Jesus.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Jesus #Epic #Heaven

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic

If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Want

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

#Christian #Epic #Long

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

#People #Want #Nonsense

The secret to concentration is elimination.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Secret #Influence #Elimination

If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that's up to you.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Hair #Use #Want

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

#Scripture #Study #Trouble

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Goal #Savior

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

#Leadership #Succeed #Life Is

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Jesus #Epic

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Children #Epic #Sin

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

#Perspective #Study #Whatever It Takes

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Needs

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Epic #Choices #Outcomes

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Eye #Opportunity #Doors

Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Influence #Prepared

You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Focus #Depth #Ministry

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

#Spiritual #Ignorance #Epic

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

#Taken #Church #Study

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Years #Effectiveness #Church

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Training #Study #Advantage

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.
-- Howard G. Hendricks

#Doors #Helping #Study

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

#Use #May #Want

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

#Curiosity #Word Of God