Max Lucado Quotes

A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.

~ Max Lucado

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.

~ Max Lucado

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

~ Max Lucado

How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, Where are you going to get $200,000 per year? To which the man responded, That's your worry.

~ Max Lucado

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.

~ Max Lucado

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven.Take your pick.

~ Max Lucado

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

~ Max Lucado

You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby's diaper, forgive your boss's temper, tolerate your spouse's moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.

~ Max Lucado

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.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.

~ Max Lucado

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

~ Max Lucado

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

~ Max Lucado

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.

~ Max Lucado

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

~ Max Lucado

God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.

~ Max Lucado

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something

~ Max Lucado

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

~ Max Lucado

Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.

~ Max Lucado

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

~ Max Lucado

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.

~ Max Lucado

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

~ Max Lucado

The Bible is the story of two gardens: Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand. In the first, God sought Adam. In the second, Jesus sought God. In Eden, Adam hid from God. In Gethsemane, Jesus emerged from the tomb. In Eden, Satan led Adam to a tree that led to his death. From Gethsemane, Jesus went to a tree that led to our life.

~ Max Lucado

Want to know the coolest thing about the coming? Not that the One who played marbles with the stars gave it up to play marbles with marbles. Or that the One who hung the galaxies gave it up to hang doorjambs to the displeasure of a cranky client who wanted everything yesterday but couldn't pay until tomorrow. Not that he, in an instant, went from needing nothing to needing air, food, a tub of hot water and salts for his tired feet, and, more than anything, needing somebody - anybody - who was more concerned about where he would spend eternity rather than where he would spend Friday's paycheck. Or that he resisted the urge to fry the two=bit, self-appointed hall monitors of holiness who dared suggest that he was doing the work of the devil. Not that he kept his cool while the dozen best friends he ever had felt the heat and got out of the kitchen. Or that he gave no command to the angels who begged, Just give us the nod, Lord. One word and these demons will be deviled eggs. Not that he refused to defend himself when blamed for every sin of every slut and sailor since Adam. Or that he stood silent as a million guilty verdicts echoed in the tribunal of heaven and the giver of light was left in the chill of a sinner's night. Not even that after three days in a dark hole he stepped into the Easter sunrise with a smile and a swagger and a question for lowly Lucifer - Is that your best punch? That was cool, incredibly cool. But want to know the coolest thing about the One who gave up the crown of heaven for a crown of thorns? He did it for you. Just for you.

~ Max Lucado

Yet when God entered time and became a man, he who was boundless became bound. Imprisoned in flesh. Restricted by weary-prone muscles and eyelids. For more than three decades, his once limitless reach would be limited to the stretch of an arm, his speed checked to the pace of human feet.I wonder, was he ever tempted to regain his boundlessness? In the middle of a long trip, did he ever consider transporting himself to the next city? When the rain chilled his bones, was he tempted to change the weather? When the heat parched his lips, did he give thought to popping over to the Caribbean for some refreshment? If he ever entertained such thoughts, he never gave into them. Not once. Stop and think about this. Not once did Christ use his supernatural powers for personal comfort. With one word, he could've transformed the hard earth into a soft bed, but he didn't. With a wave of his hands, he could've boomeranged the spit of his accusers back into their faces, but he didn't. With an arch of his brow, he could've paralyzed the hand of the soldier as he braided the crown of thorns. But he didn't.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

~ Max Lucado

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.

~ Max Lucado

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

~ Max Lucado

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

~ Max Lucado