Explore popular quotes and sayings by a professor Howard G. Hendricks.
Last updated on September 11, 2024.
Howard George Hendricks was a longtime professor at Dallas Theological Seminary and speaker for Promise Keepers. Upon his graduation from Dallas, Hendricks accepted the pastorate at Calvary Independent Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, Texas. An opening on the seminary staff led Hendricks to begin teaching twice per week in the fall of 1951. After one year on staff, Hendricks resigned his post to pursue a doctorate at Yale University. However, the founder and president of Dallas Theological Seminary, Lewis Sperry Chafer, died and the new president, John Walvoord, asked Hendricks to delay his doctorate and return to Dallas as a teacher.
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.
The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.
If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.
You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry
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.
How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.
It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.
Has it ever occurred to you that love is the greatest positive force in existence?
Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.
Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.
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.
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.
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.
The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
Spend the rest of your life doing what God prepared you to do.
Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.
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.
You never graduate from the school of discipleship.
I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.
When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.
The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.
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.
It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.
People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!
If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.
Jesus never discipled one-on-one.
Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
The reason God can't use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.
The Word of God was not written to satisfy our curiosity; it was written to #? change our lives.
Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.
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.
You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.
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.
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.
Don't put eggs under dead chickens.
You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.
Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
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.
Prayer is especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.
You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.
Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.
A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.
God is not looking for more stars; He's looking for more servants.
The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
You cannot impart what you do not possess.
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.
If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.
A good leader has a compass in their head and a magnet in their heart.
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.
In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.
So the real question confronting you now is: How can you afford not to be in God's Word?
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.
If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.
It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries
You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.