Howard G. Hendricks Quotes & Sayings

Eighty-five percent of spirituality is a good night's sleep. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Never traffic in unpracticed truth. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence? — Howard G. Hendricks

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. — Howard G. Hendricks

The home marks a child for life. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

Don't put eggs under dead chickens. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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. — Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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