Quotes from Max Lucado

What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

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.

Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.

What is this love that endures decades, passes on sleep, and resists death to give one kiss? Call it agape love, a love that bears a semblance of God's.