Quotes from Max Lucado

My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.

Vengeance fixes your attention on life's ugliest moments. Is this where you want to look? Remember: God dispenses perfect justice.

We're also a multi-site church, so we have other pastors on other campuses who want to read the message before the video plays on the weekend services. So it just works better for me.

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

There's something about compassion that causes society to say, 'We're going to take this person seriously.' Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn't rejected by society.

Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.

Today's belief is tomorrow's behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.

God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

God wants to help you find your way home.

When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn't it make you want to go home.

God wants you to know that he gets you.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.

God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

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

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

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.