Howard G. Hendricks Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

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

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

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