Max Lucado Quotes

I'm not a pastor. I'm not a man of the cloth, but I have my own calling.

I'm a preacher first and a writer second, although my role is changing a bit at the church. I'm going to bring on a co-teacher, but I'll still be a pastor and a writer.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

I am a pastor so I eat and breathe the Church.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

I think my writing is part of my ministry.

My mother is a pastor. I think she has her moments where she's like, 'Dani, what are you getting into,' but at the end of the day, she really supports me as an actor.

I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.

I'm not only a Christian, but I'm a pastor of a church.

I wanted passionately to be a priest.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

I am not a priest, you know.

As a senior in high school, I had a strong sense that God wanted me in some kind of ministry.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

I've twice been on the point of giving up my performing career to train for the priesthood.

From my youngest days, I always felt certain affinities with the idea of being a preacher.

I'm extremely proud of the ability to really go forth and minister.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call.

If I'm on stage and ministering my heart and pointing people to Christ, then that's all I can do.

Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.