Max Lucado Quotes

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.

Jesus weeps and loves me still.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.

We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

In general, I think people are worried about saying the wrong thing to any grieving person. On a very basic level, I think they're frightened of touching off tears or sorrow, as though someone tearing up at the mention of unhappy news would be the mentioner's fault.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a statue across from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his hand. And his sadness and his pain at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.

It is difficult to ever think about your loved one having suffered.

The heart of Jesus is compassionate and understanding. It has felt the sting of ingratitude, and when my heart suffers from that same offense, I can turn to him, and he understands my feelings.

I've had the chance to meet families with children who are sick, and it's heartbreaking.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.