quotes by Max Lucado

"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
— Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)

"You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. "
— Max Lucado (Cure for the Common Life)

"Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"
— Max Lucado

"God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. "
— Max Lucado

"When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?

Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?"
— Max Lucado

"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't Heaven, so don't expect it to be."
— Max Lucado

"Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again."
— Max Lucado (Every Day Deserves a Chance: Wake Up to the Gift of 24 Hours)

"To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd."
— Max Lucado

"You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."
— Max Lucado (The Christmas Candle)

"When my daughter was a toddler, I used to take her to a park not far from our apartment. One day as she was playing in a sandbox, an ice-cream salesman approached us. I purchased her a treat, and when I turned to give it to her, I saw her mouth was full of sand. Where I had intended to put a delicacy, she had put dirt.

Did I love her with dirt in her mouth? Absolutely. Was she any less of my daughter with dirt in her mouth? Of course not. Was I going to allow her to keep the dirt in her mouth? No way. I loved her right where she was, but I refused to leave her there. I carried her over to the water fountain and washed out her mouth. Why? Because I love her.

God does the same for us. He holds us over the fountain. "Spit out the dirt, honey," our Father urges. "I've got something better for you." And so he cleanses us of filth; immorality, dishonesty, prejudice, bitterness, greed. We don't enjoy the cleansing; sometimes we even opt for the dirt over the ice cream. "I can eat dirt if I want to!" we pout and proclaim. Which is true—we can. But if we do, the loss is ours. God has a better offer."
— Max Lucado (Just Like Jesus)

"He saw you cast into a river of life you didn't request. He saw you betrayed by those you love. He saw you with a body that gets sick and a heart that grows weak. He saw you in your own garden of gnarled trees and sleeping friends. He saw you staring into the pit of your own failures and the mouth of your own grave. He saw you in your own garden of Gethsemane and he didn't want you to be alone ... He would rather go to hell for you than to heaven without you."
— Max Lucado

""Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times...
If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God."
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— Max Lucado

"What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it. "
— Max Lucado (The Grace for the Moment Daily Bible: Spend 365 Days reading the Bible with Max Lucado)

""Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free realizing you were a prisoner""
— Max Lucado

""No person [should:] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.""
— Max Lucado

"He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love

(when God whisper your name)"
— Max Lucado

"Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes."
— Max Lucado