Max Lucado Quotes

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

You never begin a new life. It's a mistake to think that you end one part of your life and start another as if there's no continuity.

Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.

Everybody is changing.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I have had to give up so much, so many selves and lives already. I have grown up and out of the rubble of my old lives, of things and people I have cared for.

Four years and everything was the same, except me.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life—they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat—however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.

Change the way people think and things will never be the same

Take a look at my face, I am the future.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

A few people have said that I should change my name and the spelling so that people can say it, but I don't want to, I like it the way it is.

If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change.

Everything keeps changing. People want to label things all the time and once you label it, it changes again.

My identity is in Christ, not in basketball.

I did not lose myself all at once.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.

And that point is, it doesn't matter how long you've known somebody. People change. Or you don't really know them as well as you thought you did in the first place.

And these things that keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient, they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue. They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts, into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.