Max Lucado Quotes

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God’s justice and love are equally honored. And you, God’s creation, are forgiven.

Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.

Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.

I just love those [saying of Christ ]: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do. I thirst. It is finished. Into Your hands I commit My spirit. Today you will be with Me in paradise." That was really the heart of the second book I wrote called No Wonder They Call Him Savior.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

We're all travelers, all sojourners.

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.

God has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, "Boys, Christmas is about Jesus." I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?

I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.

We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

Jesus was not just godly, godlike, God hungry, God focused, or God worshipping. He was God. Not merely a servant of God, instrument of God, or friend of God, but Jesus was God.

There is something about keeping Him divine that keeps Him distant, packaged, predictable. But don't do it. For heaven's sake, don't. Let Him be as human as He intended to be. Let Him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let Him in can He pull us out.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.

The Land of Promise is for those who simply remain to the end.

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

Worry is anti-trust. If you're worried, you don't trust something: your kids, their friends, strangers, the church, even God. Can He take care of your children? Certainly. Jesus says, 'I tell you, stop being anxious and worried about your life.' Pretty blunt. Stop it! Easier said than done, huh? Worry tests your trust, so hand your children to God and let Him babysit your babies when you're not around. He's pretty good at it!

We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.

My main concern is with the anxiety that has settled upon America.

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Here's what I really love: I love a funny story that I can tag a serious line on the end of.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

You'll never know Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have. Are you in the wilderness? Find refuge in God's presence. Find comfort in his people.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you."