Quotes from Howard G. Hendricks

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

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

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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.

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

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