Max Lucado Quotes

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

I don't know; I think I'd be gloomy without some faith that there is a purpose and there is a kind of witness to my life.

I don't know what a person does that does not have a relationship with God. When he goes to the doctor and the doctors says, 'Hey, you've got less than two months to live and there's nothing we can do for you.' Who do they turn to when you're given something that earth shattering?

I don't think God's through with me.

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

When you believe in God, you've got to believe in the all-powerful God. He's not just God, He's the all-powerful God and He has total control over everyone's life. The Devil, on the other hand, is a real character that's trying his hardest to tear your life apart.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

Our life here on Earth has as its purpose precisely to prepare for our eternal happiness. This world is a large womb. It is a 'test' as all opportunities are tests.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

I discovered who I was when I discovered God. You are just like your father God.

I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.

I love the Lord Jesus Christ and His Church, which has been restored to the earth in our day. I treasure the teachings of His holy life from newborn infant to resurrected man, Son of God.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

When you put your total faith in God, no matter what happens, to a person who's a true believer, if you die, you know you're going to heaven to be with God.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

The religion I know most about, which is the Christian one, would simply say that it's not really for one man or woman to know fully and to understand the nature of our brief human existence.

I'm a Christian, and I believe that God has a plan and a purpose for each one of our lives and that He can intercede in all kinds of situations, and we need to have a little faith in many things.

You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Do I believe in God? Yes I do. When you've had a life like mine, you have to.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.

God decided when we would be born and when we would be born again. We have the Spirit and the Gospel. To think that we deserve to live in different times is to tell God that we deserve a better mission field than the one He has given us.

Are you facing a superheated furnace? What God wants is for you to look full in the face of Jesus. Get your focus off whatever it is that appears to be unanswered and focus on the Son.