Max Lucado Quotes

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I'm a better husband and father than I was a killer.

There is no such thing as a saint without a past or a sinner without a future.

When a young person is sent 'up the river,' we need to remember that all rivers can change course.

I'm a believer in forgiveness. I have worked with people who have been in gangs and now dedicate their lives to helping inner city kids. I've run offender services with teachings of responsibility, empathy and understanding of the victims at their heart. I've seen people change.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

I think 'Scrooge' is the best of the Christmas stories. Every child warms to it because it's about one man's transformation. It's saying that it's never too late to change, and that's a good feeling to have at Christmas.

Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

Nothing in your life is beyond redemption.

There is a way to be good again.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

I'm involved in quite a few ministries as a bridge builder, trying to match generous givers and donors to other ministries. Based on my past, I'm also involved in mainly the prison ministry. I go to jails and prisons and share my story, trying to give them some hope.

The business of second chances is everybody's business.

There are no unforgivable sins.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

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

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

The Savior isn't our last chance; He is our only chance. Our only chance to overcome self-doubt and catch a vision of who we may become. Our only chance to repent and have our sins washed clean.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.