Max Lucado Quotes

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

I'm not an evangelist Christian at all. I can't try to convert anybody. It's not in me to do that. But my faith has given me such an appreciation of people and meaningful relationships, and a world view which I didn't have before. And although I will fail every day, it gives me something to aspire to.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I don't know if I'm so righteous.

Every being has flaws; the potential is always there to connect to the light or to darkness.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I was raised to believe that you're safe in God's hands. But I don't feel safe with myself.

I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Life isn't always black and white. You're not always sure you're right. At least I'm not.

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

...The God I know is one that promotes peace and freedom. But I get great sustenance from my personal relationship. That doesn't make me think I'm a better person than you are, by the way. Because one of the great admonitions in the Good Book is, don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.