No Wonder They Call Him Savior Quotes

“If it is true that a picture paints a thousand words, then there was a Roman centurion who got a dictionary full. All he did was see Jesus suffer. He never heard him preach or saw him heal or followed him through the crowds. He never witnessed him still the wind; he only witnessed the way he died. But that was all it took to cause this weather-worn soldier to take a giant step in faith. “Surely this was a righteous man.”1 That says a lot, doesn’t it? It says the rubber of faith meets the road of reality under hardship. It says the trueness of one’s belief is revealed in pain. Genuineness and character are unveiled in misfortune. Faith is at its best, not in three-piece suits on Sunday mornings or at V.B.S. on summer days, but at hospital bedsides, cancer wards, and cemeteries. Maybe that’s what moved this old, crusty soldier. Serenity in suffering is a stirring testimony. Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“It is finished!” What was finished? The history-long plan of redeeming man was finished. The message of God to man was finished. The works done by Jesus as a man on earth were finished. The task of selecting and training ambassadors was finished. The job was finished. The song had been sung. The blood had been poured. The sacrifice had been made. The sting of death had been removed. It was over. A cry of defeat? Hardly. Had his hands not been fastened down I dare say that a triumphant fist would have punched the dark sky. No, this is no cry of despair. It is a cry of completion. A cry of victory. A cry of fulfillment. Yes, even a cry of relief. The fighter remained. And thank God that he did.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry “Why?” And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away a tear. And although he may offer no answer, although he may solve no dilemma, although the question may freeze painfully in midair, he who also was once alone, understands.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“Jesus’ love does not depend upon what we do for him. Not at all. In the eyes of the King, you have value simply because you are. You don’t have to look nice or perform well. Your value is inborn. Period.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“La verdad no necesita ser gritada.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him Savior: Experience the Truth of the Cross

“Crear es algo muy diferente que construir. La diferencia es preciosamente obvia. Construir algo compromete
solamente las manos. Mientras que crear algo compromete el corazón y el alma.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him Savior: Experience the Truth of the Cross

“Nuestro valor nace en nuestro interior.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him Savior: Experience the Truth of the Cross

“I’m alone,” she wrote, “and I want to share something with somebody.”4 Loneliness. It’s a cry. A moan, a wail. It’s a gasp whose origin is the recesses of our souls. Can you hear it? The abandoned child. The divorcée. The quiet home. The empty mailbox. The long days. The longer nights. A one-night stand. A forgotten birthday. A silent phone. Cries of loneliness. Listen again. Tune out the traffic and turn down the TV. The cry is there. Our cities are full of Judy Bucknells. You can hear their cries. You can hear them in the convalescent home among the sighs and the shuffling feet. You can hear them in the prisons among the moans of shame and the calls for mercy. You can hear them if you walk the manicured streets of suburban America, among the aborted ambitions and aging homecoming queens. Listen for it in the halls of our high schools where peer pressure weeds out the “have-nots” from the “haves.” This moan in a minor key knows all spectrums of society. From the top to the bottom. From the failures to the famous. From the poor to the rich. From the married to the single. Judy Bucknell was not alone.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“Everything is indeed permitted if God does not exist, and man is in consequence forlorn, for he cannot find anything to depend on within or without himself.”1”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place

“But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.”
― Max Lucado, No Wonder They Call Him the Savior: Discover Hope in the Unlikeliest Place