Traveling Light Quotes

“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“You need someone to lift your spirits. You need someone to look you in the face and say, "This isn't the end. Don't give up. There is a better place than this. And I'll lead you there.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Worry divides the mind.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day-tight compartment and this will certainly ensure your safety throughout your entire journey of life.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“For you to be healthy, you must rest. Slow down, and God will heal you. He will bring rest to your mind, to your body, and most of all to your soul. He will lead you to green pastures.”
― Max Lucado, Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23

“Anxiety splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“God is not going to let you see the distant scene either. So you might as well quit looking for it. He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future (Psalm 119:105). We do not need to know what will happen tomorrow. We only need to know he leads us and “we will find grace to help us when we need it” (Hebrews 4:16 NLT).”
― Max Lucado, Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23

“You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner, and an anchor for every storm. You have”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Worry divides the mind. The biblical word for worry (merimnao) is a compound of two Greek words, merizo (“to divide”) and nous (“the mind”). Anxiety splits our energy between today’s priorities and tomorrow’s problems. Part of our mind is on the now; the rest is on the not yet. The result is half-minded living.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“What you have in your Shepherd is greater than what you don’t have in life.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Set it down, child. I’ll carry that one.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“God has a great race for you to run. Under his care you will go where you’ve never been and serve in ways you’ve never dreamed.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“The key is this: Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“While we are shaking heads in disbelief, they are lifting hands in worship. While we are mourning at a grave, they are marveling at heaven. While we are questioning God, they are praising God.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“In God’s plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better. And—this is important—though you and I may wish a longer life for our loved ones, they don’t. Ironically, the first to accept God’s decision of death is the one who dies. While we are shaking heads in disbelief, they are lifting hands in worship. While we are mourning at a grave, they are marveling at heaven. While we are questioning God, they are praising God.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Bugs bug people, but they can kill sheep. Flies, mosquitoes, and gnats can turn the summer into a time of torture for the livestock. Consider nose flies, for example. If they succeed in depositing their eggs into the membrane of the sheep’s nose, the eggs become worm-like larvae, which drive the sheep insane. One shepherd explains: “For relief from this agonizing annoyance, sheep will deliberately beat their heads against trees, rocks, posts, or brush…. In extreme cases of intense infestation, a sheep may even kill itself in a frenzied endeavor to gain respite from the aggravation.”4”
― Max Lucado, Safe in the Shepherd's Arms: Hope and Encouragement from Psalm 23

“And tomorrow, when out of habit you pick your luggage back up, set it down again. Set it down again and again until that sweet day when you find you aren’t picking it back up.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“And you will dwell in the house of your Lord—forever.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“We are waiting for God to finish making us his own children, which means our bodies will be made free” (Rom. 8:23). Are our bodies”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“This body must die so the new body can live. “Flesh and blood cannot have a part in the kingdom of God.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“The twists and turns of life have a way of reminding us—we aren’t home here. This is not our homeland. We aren’t fluent in the languages of disease and death. The culture confuses the heart, the noise disrupts our sleep, and we feel far from home.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Do art critics give awards to the canvas? Is there a Pulitzer for ink? Can you imagine a scalpel growing smug after a successful heart transplant? Of course not. They are only tools, so they get no credit for the accomplishments. And the message of the Twenty-third Psalm is that we have nothing to be proud about either.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“He motions for you to lean forward. “I have a secret to tell you,” he whispers, “the secret of satisfaction. ‘The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want’” (Ps. 23: 1 NKJV). David has found the pasture where discontent goes to die. It’s as if he is saying, “What I have in God is greater than what I don’t have in life.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“Meet today’s problems with today’s strength. Don’t start tackling tomorrow’s problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow’s strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“But I can’t overstate God’s promise: “Unload all your worries onto him, since he is looking after you” (1 Pet. 5:7 JB).”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light Deluxe Edition: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear