Max Lucado Quotes

Divine grace was never slow.

Grace is God doing for us what we could never do and what we will never deserve.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

Even those of us who have tasted the radical saving grace of God find it intuitively difficult not to put conditions on grace.

God's grace is definitely abundant.

Most people have settled for a wimpy grace. It's something that doesn't change their lives. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.

God's grace and mercy have brought you through. Quit acting as if you made it on your own.

In mercy, God has called you and saved, healed, blessed and delivered you.

People received, affirmed and experienced grace in many different forms.

God's grace is so counterintuitive and everything we do in our life is just based on conditions. You do this for me and I'll do that for you. Or if you don't do this for me, I won't do that for you. And God's grace works in a completely different direction.

We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.

I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Our only qualitifcation for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness.

God doesn't just give us grace; He gives us Jesus, the Lord of grace.

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Any good that comes our way doesn't come to us solely because we have done something good, but because God is good.

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

Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.

Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.