Max Lucado Quotes

Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

I believe in facing reality. But only because I don't like turning my back on it.

In life, if you don't know the truth, then you can't be free, because then you'll believe that the lies are the truth. But once we realize that when we read the Word of God, and you know the truth of who you are, then I'm not a man without arms and legs. I am a child of God.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

I love the truth. Whether it's painful or wonderful, it always widens my perspective and changes me. It helps move me forward.

One and all have to face reality now.

To a brighter light, to a promised land, you can feel the power, of the master's hand.

Truth carries with it confrontation.

Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.

We ought to look the world frankly in the face.

Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life.

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

Truth always carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation; loving confrontation nevertheless. If our reflex action is always accommodation regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.

Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.

Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

The truth comes to rule, not through violence, but rather through its own power; [this is the central theme of John's Gospel:] When brought before Pilate, Jesus professes that He Himself is The Truth and the witness to the truth. He does not defend the truth with legions but rather makes it visible through His Passion and thereby also implements it.