Quotes from Max Lucado

When you are wondering what to do with your worst nightmare, you have to choose. Faith or fear, God's purpose or random history, a God who knows and cares or a God who isn't there? We all choose. Choose to trust God's promises. Choose to believe that God is up to something good even though all you see looks bad. Choose to believe because God is faithful.

Cuatro oraciones cortas describen la esencia de la oración: «Nosotros hablamos. Él escucha. Él habla. Nosotros escuchamos».

Anxiety increases as perceived control diminishes.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

The second redemption upstaged the first. God sent not Moses but Jesus. He smote not Pharaoh but Satan. Not with ten plagues but a single cross. The Red Sea didn't open, but the grave did, and Jesus led anyone who wanted to follow him to the Land of No More. No more law keeping. No more striving after God's approval. 'You can rest now,' he told them.

La conclusión está clara: llévale tus problemas a Jesús. No los lleves al bar. Jim Beam no puede solucionarlos. No te desquites con otros. Los arrebatos de ira nunca pueden defender una causa. Tan pronto percibas un problema, ya sea grande o pequeño, llévalo a Cristo.

If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

Bob," I have inquired, "have I said something to upset you?" "Mary," I have asked, "there seems to be tension between us. Are we okay?" Without fail the step has resulted in restoration. Never in my four decades of ministry has this practical teaching failed to achieve its goal. When Scripture is mixed with obedience, a healing elixir results.

He gives us more than we request by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your heart whole.

I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day" (2 Timothy 1:12 NIV).

We want certainty, but the only certainty is the lack thereof. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot.

When times get hard, remember Jesus. When tears come, remember Jesus. When fear pitches his tent in your front yard. When death looms, when anger singes, when shame weighs heavily. Remember Jesus. Can you still remember? Are you still in love with Him? Remember, Paul begged, remember Jesus. Before you remember anything, remember Him. If you forget anything, don't forget Him.

John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.

Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire. God's love for you does not—will not—end.

God's grace has a drenching about it. A wildness about it. A white-water, riptide, turn-you-upside-downness about it. Grace comes after you. It rewires you. From insecure to God secure. From regret-riddled to better-because-of-it. From afraid-to-die to ready-to-fly. Grace is the voice that calls us to change and then gives us the power to pull it off.1

But I can't overstate God's promise: "Unload all your worries onto him, since he is looking after you" (1 Pet. 5:7 JB).

Make the most of your relationships. Follow the advice of Benjamin Franklin: "Be slow in choosing friends and be even slower in leaving them.

Is fear coming at you from all sides? Then let God speak to you.

There is an antidote to our fears - trust. If we trust God more, we can fear less. What a comforting promise.

When a wrong wants righting, or a truth wants preaching, or a continent wants opening, God sends a baby into the world to do it. And where do you find God on Christmas? In a manger. A baby was born at the heart of the Roman Empire, that when the Roman Empire would crumble and fall, that baby, who would become a man, would also become a Savior of the world.

What sort of portrait of Jesus hangs on the walls of your mind? Is he sad, somber, angry? Are his lips pursed? Is he judging you? If so, visualize the laughing Christ on my wall. I've needed the reminder more times than I can say. Jesus laughed. He had fun.

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

Who could be relied on to be the life of the party more than the one who came to give life with joy and abundance?

Un problema por el que no has orado es como una espina enterrada. Se encona y se infecta: primero el dedo, luego la mano, después el brazo entero. Mejor es ir directo a la persona que tiene las pinzas.