Max Lucado Quotes

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

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

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

I pray for my enemies, that God would forgive them.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power.

Happiness is loving your enemies.

Love your enemies, for they determine who you are.

By humility, out of an enemy He has made a friend, which is more than to have created a new earth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Sometimes I think God wants there to be a circus so we can show there's another way to respond.

It's important to recognize that forgiveness is more than mere words; it's a heart attitude that induces a spiritual transformation.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

If your enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink

Forgiveness is up to God. I just hope we hurry up the meeting. And that’s the way I feel about him, really.

When your enemy falls, don't rejoice -- but don't pick him up either.

It's up to God to do the judging. You haven't walked in my boots, so how are you going to judge me?