Max Lucado Quotes

It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.

I lost my confidence.

I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

You take the risk of being rejected.

Faith is Doubt.

Which of these statements creates more anxiety in you: 'There is no God' or 'There is no money'?

I think I'm scared a lot. I'm scared of almost everything. And I'm constantly trying to work my way through each obstacle, whether it's a present, past, or future relationship.

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

Every time I make a movie I think that it's going to be my last one, I think that no one is going to show up. I always have this sense that they're all going to fail. I am scared to death.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

He should be the one to die, part of me thinks. I don't want to lose him, another part argues. I don't know which part to believe.

Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.

I do think that many religious people have enormous doubts.

So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

If I think, everything is lost.

What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.

Anybody who's really successful has doubts.