Max Lucado Quotes

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

When you decide to walk by faith, you don't get rid of trials. You learn to overcome them.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

When God is going to do something wonderful, He or She always starts with a hardship; when God is going to do something amazing, He or She starts with an impossibility.

Trials are the soil in which faith flourishes.

Faith without challenge is nothing.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

Adversity is like the period of the rain. . . cold, comfortless, unfriendly to people and to animals; yet from that season have their birth the flower, the fruit, the date, the rose and the pomegranate.

Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.

Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

The agony of a man's affliction is often necessary to put him into the right mood to face the fundamental things of life. The Psalmist says: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word.

Faith is not to get you out of a hard place but to change your heart in the hard place.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.