Max Lucado Quotes

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.

God does uncommon things through common people in common places.

I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

Is the establishment of Israel in fact a manifestation of God? Has a new stage been reached in the history of salvation? Is the present occupation of Israel a religious or a secular one, and if it is secular, cannot God make use of it for His purpose?

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

I believe with all my heart that God is not done with America yet.

God do everything for a reason.

The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

God uses people. God uses people to perform His work. He does not send angels. Angels weep over it, but God does not use angels to accomplish His purposes. He uses burdened broken-hearted weeping men and women.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

Nothing with God can be accidental.

I have the greater glory of God, the history is His story, that He is in charge and ultimately He knows what He's doing.

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

Salvation is a work of God to show His glory. That’s why He’s not going to let it fail.

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

God has a plan for you, you are here in this world because God has a plan for you. And the problem is that people start listening to other people and they forget to listen to their heart and to see what is the plan that God has for you.