Max Lucado Quotes

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

When we love like Jesus does, lives change for the better.

Being Christlike guarantees that you'll have the most important friend of all: the Savior. He knows what it's like to be misunderstood, lonely, and rejected.

Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

God, as you tell me, was put to death by the very men He created. But my God still looks down on His children.

I love people. Jesus loves people.

Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn't have it all together.

Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.

If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

If we focus on loving others the way God does, scripture says that we will be fulfilling His whole law.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

I marvel to think that the Son of God would condescend to save us, as imperfect, impure, mistake-prone, and ungrateful as we often are. I have tried to understand the Savior's Atonement with my finite mind, and the only explanation I can come up with is this: God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastingly.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self. God loves us, not because of what we do or accomplish, but because God has created and redeemed us in love.

My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior's love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.

Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.