Inspirational Quotes by Max Lucado
“Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leaves you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing and listen as Heaven whispers, "Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
“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.”
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“Ponder this the next time your world goes from calm to chaos… . Jesus knows how you feel.”
“The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.”
“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.”
“God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile”
“IF YOUR GOD IS MIGHTY ENOUGH TO IGNITE THE SUN, COULD IT BE THAT HE IS MIGHTY ENOUGH TO LIGHT YOUR PATH?”
“Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd!”
“You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighborly. Be the employee who does the work and doesn’t complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don’t speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.”
“Let grace microwave your cold heart. “Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18). When you do, you’ll find yourself joining the ranks of the truly wealthy. You’ll be rich with grace.”
“If we say we have no sin, we are fooling ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, he will forgive our sins, because we can trust God to do what is right. He will cleanse us from all the wrongs we have done” (1 John 1:8–9 NCV).”
“To accept God’s grace is to accept God’s offer to be adopted into his family.”
“Maybe your family is more drama than delight, more crazy than kind? I can’t say that your family will ever understand or bless you, but I know God will. Let God give you what your family doesn’t. If your earthly family doesn’t support you, then let your heavenly one take its place.”
“The way to deal with discouragement? The cure for disappointment? Go back and read the story of God. Read it again and again. Be reminded that you aren’t the first person to cry. And you aren’t the first person to be helped. Read the story, and remember—the story is yours!”
“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may . . . grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. [ Ephesians 3:17–18 NIV”
“Breathing is automatic for us. We need air to live, but we don’t think about the process of getting it as we go about our day. We just breathe. That’s how our relationship with God should be. Automatic. We don’t think about needing to talk to God. It just happens, all day long.”
“He wants to hear from us, even when our words are little more than angry arrows. Talking about it is the first step to healing.”
“We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him. [ Romans 8:28”
“So you’ve made your Christmas list? Checked it twice? Before we get too carried away dreaming about the CD or Xbox game we’ve just got to have, let’s be thankful for the One gift we already have—the best gift of all.”
“Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. But take all these away—strip away the sunsets, oceans, and cooing babies—and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us.”
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Max Lucado is a preacher with a storyteller’s gift—a pastor’s heart and a poet’s pen. Max’s sermons begin at home with the congregation at Oak Hills Church, which he has led for more than two decades. It is in this setting that his stories are first told, from a pastor’s heart. Eventually some of these sermons and stories are refined and fashioned into books that are shared far beyond the walls of Oak Hills and the city limits of San Antonio, Texas. Max’s words have traveled around the world in more than 41 languages via more than 100 million individual products.Max Lucado’s first book, On the Anvil, was published in 1985. 2013 brings the release of Max’s 30th trade book, You’ll Get Through This (September), which beautifully illustrates Lucado’s ongoing mission to encourage the brokenhearted and to remind all readers of the healing love of God. Max and family moved back to Texas in 1988, and Max has been a minister at Oak Hills Church ever since. Max and Denalyn have three grown daughters, two in ministry, one in publishing, and one son-in-law, also serving in ministry.
Max Lucado is a best-selling Christian author and minister of writing and preaching at Oak Hills Church (formerly the Oak Hills Church of Christ) in San Antonio, Texas. Lucado has written more than 50 books with 28 million copies in print.
After serving as the pulpit minister for 20 years, Lucado announced in early 2007 that he was stepping down due to health concerns related to atrial fibrillation. Lucado has since assumed the ministry role of writing and preaching at Oak Hills. He co-pastors the church with one of Willow Creek's former teaching pastors, Randy Frazee.
Lucado was named "America's Pastor" by Christianity Today magazine and in 2005 was named by Reader's Digest as "The Best Preacher in America." He has been featured on The Fox News Channel, NBC Nightly News, Larry King Live, and USA Today. His books are regularly on the New York Times Best Seller List. He has been featured speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast.