Max Lucado Quotes

Everyone has their challenges.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

Things haven't always gone right for me in football.

Life is not a piece of cake, and it certainly is not for many of the people I know.

We all go through difficult spells.

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

I've been 0-10, I've been in sucky situations.

There were people who supported me but there were even more who denied me opportunities.

Life isn't always wonderful.

Things aren't always full of sunshine, there has to be friction at times as well.

My life is not, you know, all rainbows and butterflies.

Growing up was very difficult.

I've had enough rejection for multiple lifetimes.

You can't have a pain-free life. It can't all be roses and unicorns.

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

When you are an outcast, even a tossed stone can be cherished.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.

To be shelterless and alone in the open country, hearing the wind moan and watching for day through the whole long weary night; to listen to the falling rain, and crouch for warmth beneath the lee of some old barn or rick, or in the hollow of a tree; are dismal things - but not so dismal as the wandering up and down where shelter is, and beds and sleepers are by thousands; a houseless rejected creature.

Life's not all beer and skittles