Max Lucado Quotes

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?

I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make.

God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."

Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

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.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

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.

Believing in God is a very intense inner struggle of mine. It's something I worry about a lot, but which I don't have the answer to.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.