Max Lucado Quotes

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.

People are hurting and looking for answers. The Gospel gives us hope.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

The problem of pain meets its match in the scandal of grace.

For the real difference between happiness and joy is that one is grounded in this world, the other in eternity. Happiness cannot encompass suffering and evil. Joy can. Happiness depends on the present. Joy leaps into the future and triumphantly creates a new present out of it.

True faith means holding nothing back; it bets everything on the hope of eternity

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it.

You should read something else." Why would he have done that to him?" I don't know," she said. Do you ever feel like Job?" She smiled, a little twinkle in her eyes. Sometimes." But you haven't lost your faith?" No," I knew she hadn't, but I think I was losing mine. Is it because you think you might get better?" No," she said,"its because its the only thing I have left.

In pain, I'd rather walk with Jesus with all of my questions, than walk by myself with all the answers.

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.

But still, everything is for Jesus; so like that everything is beautiful, even though it is difficult.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.