Best 74 quotes of Howard G. Hendricks on MyQuotes

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

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

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

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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

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

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.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

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

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

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

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.

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

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

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.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

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

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 genius of the Word of God is that it has staying power; it can stand up to repeated exposure.

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.

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