He Gets Us Quotes

“thing about you is your belief system.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Writings from Max Lucado Our world is stressed. Jesus gets that. He faced the issues we face and some far more severe than we ever will. He taught how to deal with the challenges of life. And the key to what he taught is to believe God cares for you.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries wide and the tassels on their garments long; they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others. “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?” “Yes, Lord,” she replied, “I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, who is to come into the world.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying: “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace” (John 1:16 ESV).”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“He’s been to Nazareth, where he made deadlines and paid bills; to Galilee, where he recruited direct reports and separated fighters; to Jerusalem, where he stared down critics and stood up against cynics.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“The fighter remained. And thank God that he did. Thank God that he endured, because you cannot deal with your own sins. “Only God can forgive sins” (Mark 2:7 NCV). Jesus is “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” (John 1:29 NCV).”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“When you see the torches and feel the betrayer’s kiss, remember the Father’s words: “I will never leave you; I will never abandon you.”20”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Betray. The word is an eighth of an inch above betroth in the dictionary, but a world from betroth in life. It’s a weapon found only in the hands of one you love. Your enemy has no such tool, for only a friend can betray. Betrayal is mutiny. It’s a violation of a trust, an inside job.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“The genius of Jesus’ example is that the burden of bridge building falls on the strong”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you” (John 13:14–15).”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, “I can clean that if you want.” And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“The Lord’s Supper is a gift to you. The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament,4 not a sacrifice.5”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“And at the supper, Jesus is not the served but the servant. It was Jesus who, during the supper, put on the garb of a servant and washed the disciples’ feet (John 13:5).”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“The name of Jesus has been used by some to harm and divide, but if you look at how he lived, you see how backward that really is. Jesus was not exclusive. He was radically inclusive.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“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?”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“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.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“When the angels announced the arrival of the Messiah, they proclaimed “good news of a great joy” (Luke 2:10 RSV), not “bad news of a great duty.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Jesus was happy and wants us to be the same.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“You can’t see the warden. You can’t see the locks. But you can see the prisoners. You can see them as they sit on their bunks and bemoan their fate. They want to live, but they can’t because they are doomed to do what they most want to avoid—they will die. Imagine Jesus seeing us in our “prisons” of fear:”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Jesus wept” (John 11:35).”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Crises will always drive some to faith and others to skepticism.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“A guilty conscience becomes a curtain that separates us from God.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“His life was one of simplicity and deprivation.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Here is what I think: our biggest fears are sprained ankles to God. Here is what else I think: a lot of people live with unnecessary anxiety over temporary limps.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“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.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“Anxiety increases as perceived control diminishes.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus

“If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.”
― Max Lucado, He Gets Us: Experiencing the confounding love, forgiveness, and relevance of Jesus