Top 88 Howard Hendricks Quotes
#1. I used to be encouraged when, after a Sunday's message, people would say, "John, that was a good message. You showed me things from that verse that I never would have seen. I don't know how you do it. Thanks so much." Howard Hendricks called this postservice time "the glorification of the worm.
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#3. If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
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#5. Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
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#6. The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?
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#13. 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.
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#14. The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to # change our lives.
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#15. How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.
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#16. So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?
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#17. Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
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#18. In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.
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#19. 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.
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#20. You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.
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#21. It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
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#23. Dvantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.
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#24. There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
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#25. 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.
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#26. The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
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#27. When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
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#29. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#34. People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
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#35. My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.
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#37. The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
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#38. The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
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#39. God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other people
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#40. Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.
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#44. The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
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#45. You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.
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#46. Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.
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#47. The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied.
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#48. Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.
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#52. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#59. A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
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#61. Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.
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#64. The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.
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#68. 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.
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#70. 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.
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#72. Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.
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#73. 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.
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#76. You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.
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#77. You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
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#78. 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.
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#80. planted seeds - and you're still reaping the harvest from them. Don't ever get so hung up on a specific lesson that you forget this fact: Good teaching - and
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#82. 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.
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#85. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.
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