Max Lucado Quotes

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you. You have to choose the actions that lead you to that life.

God regenerates us and puts us in contact with all his divine resources, but he cannot make us walk according to his will.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God! How do I function within His plan?

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.

In my experience, take the Holy Spirit out of the equation of your life and it spells boring. Add it into the equation of your life and you never know where you are going to go, what you are going to do, or who you are going to meet.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

I open my mind and allow the Holy Spirit to come in.

Your soul is between you and God.

God has a plan for every individual. We must only strive to achieve what we have to. He takes care of the rest.

A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.

Lean on thyself until thy strength is tried; Then ask God's help; it will not be denied. Use thine own sight to see the way to go; When darkness falls ask God the path to show. Think for thyself and reason out thy plan; God has His work and thou hast thine. Exert thy will and use for self-control; God gave thee jurisdiction of thy soul. All thine immortal powers bring into play; Think, act, strive, reason, and look up and pray.

You are as close to God as you choose to be.

If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

When I got saved, God became my art agent.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.