Top 80 Howard G. Hendricks Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The secret to concentration is elimination.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

2. “Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to heart.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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3. “You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

4. “If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

6. “You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

7. “Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

8. “Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

9. “Vision without integrity is not mission – it’s manipulation.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

10. “When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

11. “Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

12. “The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

13. “It’s a sin to bore people with the Bible.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

14. “You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

15. “A belief is something you will argue about. A conviction is something you will die for.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

16. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

17. “Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

18. “The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

21. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

22. “In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

23. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

24. “You cannot impart what you do not possess.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

26. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

27. “In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it’s obedience.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

28. “Don’t put eggs under dead chickens.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

29. “My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

30. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

31. “God is not looking for more stars; He’s looking for more servants.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

32. “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

33. “The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

34. “You never graduate from the school of discipleship.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

35. “Children are not looking for perfect parents, but they are looking for honest parents.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

36. “You can control your choices but you can’t control the outcome of those choices.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

37. “Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse – it takes a while to go off.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

38. “The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ’s image.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

39. “I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

40. “Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

41. “If your religion does not work at home, don’t export it.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

42. “If you cannot be accused of exclusivity, you are not discipling.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

43. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

44. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

46. “The reason God can’t use you more than He wants to may well be that you are not prepared.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

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

— Howard G. Hendricks

48. “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.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

49. “The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, “Oh, I know this one already,” you’re in deep trouble.”

— Howard G. Hendricks

50. “Jesus never discipled one-on-one.”

— Howard G. Hendricks