Professor Howard G. Hendricks (1924-2013) influenced a lot of people. Here is a collection of some of his more well-known quotes:
- You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.
- You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.
- You never graduate from the school of discipleship.
- It’s a sin to bore people with the Bible.
- Most people don’t think, they just rearrange their prejudices.
- Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.
- My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.
- Heaven is a person: Jesus.
- Never traffic in unpracticed truth.
- You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.
- There’s no one without significant creative potential.
- If you’re just like someone else, we don’t need you.
- How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.
- You cannot impart what you do not possess.
- The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.
- Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.
- The greatest curse that pervaded the university is apathy.
- The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.
- In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it’s obedience.
- 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.
- In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.
- You can control your choices but you can’t control the outcome of those choices.
- If you want to continue leading, you must continue changing.
- Experience is not the best teacher; evaluated experience is.
- If we stop learning today, we stop teaching tomorrow.
- Leaders are readers, and readers are leaders.
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