Max Lucado Quotes

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

I don't want a monument. We don't build monuments; we build God's Kingdom.

To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self-denial can say is, 'He leads the way, keep close to Him.'

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I didn’t come here to seek a power or to get a chairmanship. I wanted to do what I think my Lord wants me to do.

I don't go on nobody's stage before I give praise to God.

I would not like to take credit for all the hard work that I have put in. It's all because of the Almighty. Whatever I have or will get in the future is because of Him.

I do everything I do to glorify God.

One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God.

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

Heroism is an extraordinary feat of the flesh; holiness is an ordinary act of the spirit. One may bring personal glory; the other always gives God glory.

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

It is my desire and intent to trust the multi-layered good purposes of God than in what humans fabricate out of their need and experience. I specifically ask not to know these purposes so that I might remain a child in their unfolding.