Howard G. Hendricks Quotes - Page 3

The secret to concentration is elimination.

Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?

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

If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.

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

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

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.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

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.

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

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

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

There's no one without significant creative potential.

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

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