Top 50 Henry Blackaby Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Watch to see where God is working and join Him in His work.”

— Henry Blackaby

2. “Spiritual leadership is moving people on to God’s agenda.”

— Henry Blackaby

3. “God is always at work around you.”

— Henry Blackaby

4. “It is impossible to worship God and remain unchanged.”

— Henry Blackaby

5. “You cannot stay where you are and go with God. You cannot continue doing things your way and accomplish God’s purpose in His ways. Your thinking cannot come close to God’s thoughts. For you to do the will of God, you must adjust your life to Him, His purposes, and His ways.”

— Henry Blackaby

6. “You cannot go with God and stay where you are.”

— Henry Blackaby

7. “God’s commands are designed to guide you to life’s very best. You will not obey Him, if you do not believe Him and trust Him. You cannot believe Him if you do not love Him. You cannot love Him unless you know Him.”

— Henry Blackaby

8. “Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom.”

— Henry Blackaby

9. “God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.”

— Henry Blackaby

10. “To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.”

— Henry Blackaby

11. “Revival is when God’s people return to God and God returns to them, and everyone sees the difference.”

— Henry Blackaby

12. “The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.”

— Henry Blackaby

13. “How you live your life is a testimony of what you believe about God.”

— Henry Blackaby

14. “Prayer is designed to adjust you to God’s will, not to adjust God to your will.”

— Henry Blackaby

15. “We don’t choose what we will do for God; He invites us to join Him where He wants to involve us.”

— Henry Blackaby

16. “If you feel weak, limited, ordinary, you are the best material through which God can work.”

— Henry Blackaby

17. “Jesus taught that your highest priority must be your relationship with Him. If anything detracts you from that relationship, that activity is not from God. God will not ask you to do something that hinders your relationship with Christ.”

— Henry Blackaby

18. “The Christian never works toward victory, he always works FROM victory.”

— Henry Blackaby

19. “If you know that God loves you, you should never question a directive from Him. It will always be right and best. When He gives you a directive, you are not just to observe it, discuss it, or debate it. You are to obey it.”

— Henry Blackaby

20. “You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.”

— Henry Blackaby

21. “When Holy God draws near in true revival, people come under terrible conviction of sin. The outstanding feature of spiritual awakening has been the profound consciousness of the Presence and holiness of God.”

— Henry Blackaby

22. “If we walk with Him closely today, we’ll be in the center of His will tomorrow.”

— Henry Blackaby

23. “When God spoke to Moses and others in the Old Testament, those events were encounters with God. An encounter with Jesus was an encounter with God for the disciples. In the same way an encounter with the Holy Spirit is an encounter with God for you.”

— Henry Blackaby

24. “We’ve got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we’re going to lead like Jesus.”

— Henry Blackaby

25. “If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience.”

— Henry Blackaby

26. “God has a right to interrupt your life. He is Lord. When you accepted Him as Lord, you gave Him the right to help Himself to your life anytime He wants.”

— Henry Blackaby

27. “The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.”

— Henry Blackaby

28. “Don’t put labels on people. See them as people who Christ died for.”

— Henry Blackaby

29. “Why is it that when we talk to God, it’s called ‘prayer,’ but when God speaks to us, it’s called schizophrenia?”

— Henry Blackaby

30. “All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the “great fruit of revival.” In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.”

— Henry Blackaby

31. “A test of your love for God is to examine your love for others.”

— Henry Blackaby

32. “If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.”

— Henry Blackaby

33. “Our difficulty is not that we don’t know God’s will. Our discomfort comes from the fact that we do know His will, but we do not want to do it.”

— Henry Blackaby

34. “What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.”

— Henry Blackaby

35. “The truth is that God can do anything He pleases through an ordinary person who is fully dedicated to Him.”

— Henry Blackaby

36. “It takes intentional effort to tune out every voice except God’s.”

— Henry Blackaby

37. “If things are getting darker, the problem is with us.”

— Henry Blackaby

38. “Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.”

— Henry Blackaby

39. “Wouldn’t it be a tragedy to get to the top of the ladder and find you placed it against the wrong wall?”

— Henry Blackaby

40. “We don’t realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.”

— Henry Blackaby

41. “Regardless of what we say, it’s what we do that reveals what we as a church or individual actually believe about God and His will for us.”

— Henry Blackaby

42. “We were not saved from our sin simply so that we would qualify for heaven. God delivered us so we would have a relationship with Him through which He could carry out His mission to redeem a lost world.”

— Henry Blackaby

43. “When we hear His call and respond accordingly, there will be no limit to what God can and will do through His people. But if we do not even recognize when He is speaking, we are in trouble at the very heart of our relationship to Him.”

— Henry Blackaby

44. “Ultimately, leadership is more about ‘being’ than ‘doing.’”

— Henry Blackaby

45. “God doesn’t want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.”

— Henry Blackaby

46. “Teach yourself to thankfully receive all that God gives you as evidence of His love and faithfulness, and then you’ll find it easier to trust Him next time.”

— Henry Blackaby

47. “The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.”

— Henry Blackaby

48. “Nothing is more pathetic than having a small character in a big assignment. Many of us don’t want to give attention to our character, we just want the big assignment from God.”

— Henry Blackaby

49. “Prayerless leaders are like ship captains without compasses; they can make their best guess at which direction to go, but they have no assurance they are heading the right way. Prayer keeps leaders focused on the one absolutely consistent factor in life – God.”

— Henry Blackaby

50. “God’s commands are designed to guide you to life’s very best.”

— Henry Blackaby