Max Lucado Quotes

If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?

God loves people just the way they are, but He loves them too much to leave them that way!

There's no limit to God's love.

If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.

When no one is watching, live as if someone is.

God forgets the past... Imitate Him.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd."

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

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

Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.

Our tendency is to be converted to church and not to Christ.

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

CAN is 100 times more important than IQ

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people's lives.

I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

God's love supply is never empty.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

Though you see nothing, he is acting.

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

It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.

When we're in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, "God is not here." We have to draw near to God.

Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

No distance is too far.

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.

No person is too hardened.

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective.

If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

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

Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?

When you read the Bible, it's as though it reads you.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.