Max Lucado Quotes

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

We may imitate the Deity in all His attributes; but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal Him. We cannot, indeed, give like God; but surely we may forgive like Him.

What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things.

When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

Nothing can alter the character of God. In the course of a human life, tastes and outlook and temper may change radically: a kind, equable man may turn bitter and crotchety: a man of good-will may grow cynical and callous. But nothing of this sort happens to the Creator. He never becomes less truthful, or merciful, or just, or good, than He used to be.

Open your heart and invite God into every circumstance because when God enters the scene, miracles happen.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

God's mercy is so great that you may sooner drain the sea of its water, or deprive the sun of its light, or make space too narrow, than diminish the great mercy of God.

God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.

We have a God who delights in impossibilities.

If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit

Here's something to think about: If God appeared to you and asked, "Why should I let you into heaven?" how would you answer?

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

God is the Father who is full of mercy. God is the Father who is full of comfort. That is the kind of relationship he offers to you.

In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live.

Faith does the impossible because it brings God to undertake for us, and nothing is impossible with God.

Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others.

The fundamental principle of Christianity is to be what God is, and he is light.