Max Lucado Quotes

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.

Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

God's grace is definitely abundant.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

Grace is ever present. All that is necessary is that you surrender to it.

Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

All our difficulties are only platforms for the manifestations of His grace, power and love.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

Joy is the grace we say to God.

Grace pours all beauty into the soul ... The soul means the world.

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.

Let us allow God to fill our hearts with his goodness and mercy.