Max Lucado Quotes

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.

As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.

It is tragic that some Christians have been so battered with stories of a prideful, vindictive God that they have fled from Jesus' fold.

Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly submitted; how the farce went on till the lad was bound and laid on the altar, and how God then stopped the murder, and blessed the intending murderer for his willingness to commit the crime.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye.

I don't think He [God] would want to run a heaven that would keep Henry F. Ashurst out.

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

I want you to know there is a God. He sits high, but he looks low. He will destroy, but yet he will defend - and he defended me.

No soul can be forever banned, Eternally bereft, Whoever falls from God's right hand Is caught into his left.

In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.

It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

Whatever God does, the first outburst is always compassion.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil.

Divine love, agape, is self-sacrificing love, which sounds difficult, as it is, and not very attractive. If the best image we have of love is of a man who's been tortured and hung upon a cross to die an excruciating death, this is something that human beings find very, very hard to understand as love. But it is the highest Christian image of love.

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

Great sins do draw out great grace; and where guilt is most terrible and fierce, there the mercy of God in Christ, when showed to the soul, appears most high and mighty.

God does not answer our desperate questionings; he simply gives us himself.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

God's love for us is constant and will not diminish, but he cannot rescue us from the painful results that are caused by wrong choices.