Howard G. Hendricks quotes:

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

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.

Bible study is essential to spiritual maturity.

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.

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

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

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.

Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.

Heaven is a person: Jesus.

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

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

Our problem is that we are in the Word but not under the Word.

Teaching that impacts is not head to head, but heart to 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.

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

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

Christian education is a bomb with a long fuse - it takes a while to go off.

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

You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

You cannot impart what you do not possess.

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.

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

Biblically speaking, to hear and not to do is not to hear at all.

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

Don't put eggs under dead chickens.

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.

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

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.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.

If you are not thinking correctly, you are not living correctly. What you believe will determine how you behave.

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

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.

If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.

If you want to use your testosterone to grow hair, that's up to you.

If your religion does not work at home, don't export it.

If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

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

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.

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

It is amazing how much light the Bible shines on commentaries

It is not about where you are but in what direction you're moving. God is into character, not credentials.

It's a sin to bore people with the Bible.

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.

Jesus never discipled one-on-one.

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

Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.

Maybe you've attended church for five, ten, or even twenty years, but you've never cracked open the Bible to prepare yourself for effectiveness as His instrument. You've been under the Word, but not in it for yourself.

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

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

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

People tell me they want to make the Bible relevant. Nonsense. The Bible's already relevant. You're the one that's irrelevant!

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

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

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.

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

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.

That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

The Bible is owned, read on occasion, even taken to church-but not studied.

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

The Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ's image.

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

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 goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.

The home marks a child for life.

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

The moment you come to a passage of scripture and say, "Oh, I know this one already," you're in deep trouble.

The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.

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

The secret to concentration is elimination.

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

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.

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.

There's an old saying that nothing good happens fast. I don't know if that's altogether true, but it does have some bearing on Bible study.

There's no one without significant creative potential.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

You are free to make choices. You are not free to escape the consequences.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

You focus on the depth of your relationship [with God]; let Him determine the scope of your ministry

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

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.

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.