Max Lucado Quotes

God never alters the robe of righteousness to fit the man. Rather He alters the man to fit the robe.

Here's good news: God is even more committed to your change, your growth, and your transformation than you are.

Faith does not proceed from ourselves, but is the fruit of spiritual regeneration.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.

To pray is to change. This is a great grace. How good of God to provide a path whereby our lives can be taken over by love and joy and peace and patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self-control.

Often we talk about God's ability to change lives without fully understanding how to access that power.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

Can human hearts be changed? Why, of course! It happens every day in the great missionary work of the Church. It is one of the most widespread of Christ's modern miracles. If it hasn't happened to you - it should.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

The gospel may not make a sow's ear into a silk purse, but it will make everybody better if they live it. I've tried it. It stands the test.

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.

Our job is not to change people; our job is to connect people to Jesus, and it's Jesus' job to change people.

We take what we think are the tools of spiritual transformation into our own hands and try to sculpt ourselves into robust Christlike specimens. But spiritual transformation is primarily the work of the Holy Spirit. He is the Master Sculptor.

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin. I seek to be redeemed from sin itself. Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

There is a vast difference between intellectual belief and the total conversion that saves the soul.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.