The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
Max LucadoThe Christmas message itself is that God chooses common people to do the most uncommon things. No matter how common you are, and no matter how simple you are, God has a plan and ability to come into our world and do something unusual.
Max LucadoSin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
Max LucadoBlessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.
Max LucadoGrace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
Max Lucado[ Christianity], in and of itself, sets itself apart inherently, and so, for somebody to say, Well it just seems to me like you can pick between all these religions and still have the same thing. Its kind of like somebody saying, You could pick between 80 bananas and one apple and say you have a banana. You cant call that apple a banana.
Max Lucado