Max Lucado Quotes

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing.

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate.

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.

God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.

God uses every possible means to communicate with you.

Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

Let's try to present the same gospel but in a fresh fashion, always looking for a better way to connect with the audience.

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

You don't have to be dishonest to communicate the gospel.

I've caught myself a time or two adding or embellishing. I don't think that pleases the Lord. I don't think He needs my dishonesty to convey His gospel.

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that - personal experiences that I probably over-milk.

Creativity has got to be the warp and woof, the heart and soul, of our sermons.

God has high plans for you and me.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

Unmet expectations are tough when it's your wife or your husband, but it's really tough when it's God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.

We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots.

The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it - and then everybody votes with their footsteps.

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I'm in the thick of it.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics.

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.

Once you have seen his face you will forever long to see it again.

Don't measure the size of the mountain talk to the One who can move it.

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

Truth is, we don’t get grace. But it sure can get us.

God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

... he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you."Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.

You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.

GRACEGRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches' the PEACE of God, The LOVE of God, The HOPE of God.

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

Gratitude gets us through the hard stuff...Gratitude always leaves us looking at God and away from dread.

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile