Howard G. Hendricks
You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.Collection: Choices
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Curiosity
Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.Collection: Teaching
The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.Collection: Epic
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.Collection: Leadership
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.Collection: Epic
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.Collection: Scripture
My great concern for you in life is not that you will fail, but that you will succeed in doing the wrong things.Collection: Leadership
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Past
If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.Collection: Believe
If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.Collection: Teaching
It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.Collection: Moving
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.Collection: Distance
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Book
Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.Collection: Rest Of Your Life
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Able
The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.Collection: Teacher
God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.Collection: Stars
Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.Collection: Epic
How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.Collection: Epic
The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.Collection: Spiritual
That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.Collection: Letters
The secret to concentration is elimination.Collection: Secret
If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.Collection: Epic
Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.Collection: Epic
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?Collection: Real
Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.Collection: Epic
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.Collection: Epic
Never traffic in unpracticed truth.Collection: Epic
The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church - but not studied.Collection: Taken
You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.Collection: Epic
If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.Collection: Epic
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentariesCollection: Shine On
Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.Collection: Prayer
Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Maturity
Jesus never discipled one-on-one.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Years
It is a sin to bore a child with the Word of God.Collection: Children
I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.Collection: Prayer
God is still in the process of dispensing gifts, and He uses ordinary individuals like us to develop those gifts in other peopleCollection: Christian
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.Collection: Men
There's no one without significant creative potential.Collection: Epic
My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.Collection: Epic
If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.Collection: Discipleship