In the Manger Quotes

“God seems less interested in talent and more interested in trust.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“The places he went to reach us show how far he will go to touch us.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we’ve never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“The angels came in the night because that is when lights are best seen and that is when they are most needed. God comes into the common for the same reason. His most powerful tools are the simplest.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“But God dances amid the common. And that night he did a waltz.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“O Lord, Author of my life, thank you for creating me in your image and starting my story. Help me write it carefully and truly become like you. Come, O come, Immanuel, and help me complete my story well. In Jesus’ name, amen.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“Change always brings fear before it brings faith. We always assume the worst before we look for the best. God interrupts our lives with something we’ve never seen, and rather than praise, we panic! We interpret the presence”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“The omnipotent, in one instant, made himself breakable. He who had been spirit became pierceable. He who was larger than the universe became an embryo. And he who sustains the world with a word chose to be dependent upon the nourishment of a young girl. God as a fetus. Holiness sleeping in a womb. The Creator of life being created.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent

“So the angels went to the shepherds. Men who didn’t have a reputation to protect or an ax to grind or a ladder to climb. Men who didn’t know enough to tell God that angels don’t sing to sheep and that messiahs aren’t found sleeping in a feed trough.”
― Max Lucado, In the Manger: 25 Inspirational Selections for Advent