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Quotes from Howard G. Hendricks

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.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
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.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The home marks a child for life.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Never traffic in unpracticed truth.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
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.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The mark of spiritual maturity is not how much you understand, but how much you use. In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge but obedience.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The true function of the teacher is to create the most favorable conditions for self-learning.… True teaching is not that which gives knowledge, but that which stimulates pupils to gain it. One might say that he teaches best who teaches least. JOHN MILTON GREGORY
~ Howard G. Hendricks
One of the great killers in Bible study is the statement, "I already know that.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
art of teaching—and the difficulty of learning—is getting people to place themselves at the beginning of that cycle, to plunge to the bottom, so they can start the learning process.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.
~ Howard G. Hendricks
The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
~ Howard G. Hendricks