Quotes About Max Lucado

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Even famous evangelical author Max Lucado (who had never spoken publicly about presidential candidates) warned against Donald Trump.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

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.

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.

Be anxious for nothing. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Is this what he meant? Not exactly. He wrote the phrase in the present active tense, which implies an ongoing state. It's the life of perpetual anxiety that Paul wanted to address. The Lucado Revised Translation reads, Don't let anything in life leave you perpetually breathless and in angst. The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.

This is the loneliest point in history. The last moment of true abandonment. From here on, abandonment is nothing more than a myth. And loneliness? A choice.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. PSALM 23:6 NKJV

If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.

Hell, like heaven, is a location, not a state of mind, not a metaphysical dimension of floating spirits, but an actual place populated by physical beings.

Revenge is irreverent … To forgive someone is to display reverence. Forgiveness is not saying the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

Jesus was not a godlike man, nor a manlike God. He was God-man.

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience but shouts to us in our pain." C. S. LEWIS

As we do our part (rejoice in the Lord, pursue a gentle spirit, pray about everything, and cling to gratitude), God does his part.

This kind of peace is not a human achievement. It is a gift from above. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid" (John 14:27 NIV).

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Matthew 5:16

Saturate your day in His grace. Entrust your day to His oversight. Accept His direction. Grace, Oversight, Direction G-O-D

Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light" (James 1:17 MSG).