Max Lucado Quotes

The bad news that we are all guilty is met with the best news that God loves and forgives guilty people.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

There are no unforgivable sins.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Yes, I'm a miserable, wretched sinner, but He loves me. And to Him, I'm His child, and I can walk in that love and that understanding.

Let us never forget this, he is pure mercy, let us go to Jesus!

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.

Catholics should be proselytizing about a God who is love, who represents a hereafter where there's no hell, who wants you to lead a life where you can confess your sins and feel much better afterwards. Those are lovely concepts of God.