Max Lucado Quotes

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.

Material things don't matter.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

To me, God comes first, my family come second. If I fail at those two, I'm just playing games.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

The more men value money the less they value virtue.

You can't serve God and money.

The worth of things can't be measured by what they cost but by what the cost you to get it, that if anything costs you your faith or your family, then the price is too high, and that there are some things that will never wear out.

How can we recognize if we're falling into materialism's trap? Christ's words were direct and profound: "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" . What we do with our possessions is a sure indicator of what's in our hearts. Jesus is saying, "Show me your checkbook, your credit card statement, and your receipts for cash expenditures, and I'll show you where your heart is." What we do with our money doesn't lie. It is a bold statement to God of what we truly value.

Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else.

Some folks serve the almighty dollar far more faithfully than the Almighty God. They get greater delight out of balancing the budget than watching the Lord multiply the loaves and fishes.

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.

Wealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.

God doesn’t want to take your money. He just doesn’t want your money to take you.

Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.

Matters of the heart are important to me. All this materialism and all the money and wealth are things that you don't take to the grave. One day you have it. The next day you don't.

There's nothing wrong with being a capitalistic society, but it's taken the place of faith.

To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.

What is it worth to possess the riches of the world, when a man comes to face Eternity?

First of all, as a man the most important thing you have in your life now is your child that you're carrying. That's it. Everything else comes second; personally, for me, other than your relationship with God and your wife.

Your first obligation, I suppose, is to your God. Your second is to your family. And your third is to your community. And you ought to try to fulfill all of those in your life.

For me it's always God, family, and then my work.

I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'