Max Lucado Quotes

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.

You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

The only mistake is not to risk making one.

Giants. We must face them. Yet we need not face them alone.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.

Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

Grace 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.

You wonder if God has a place for a person like you. Find your answer in the Bethlehem stable.

Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter

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

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

Your serenity matters to heaven. God's presence encapsulates your life.

Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.

Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

We’re grateful when all is well, but can we say the same on disastrous days?

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not.

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.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.

Ggrace is God's best idea - it's His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly.

We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.

I've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet.

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

Let your failures refine you, not define you.

Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God's forgiveness?

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.

Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.