Max Lucado Quotes

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have been blessed with a gift.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and be happy.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

My journey has been good, and by God's grace, I have not changed.

When I realize I've come through so much, good and bad, because of my relationship with Christ, I can't hide that light within me.

I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

I've always believed in staying in a positive frame of mind and allowing God to work and move. It's about having patience.

The goal for me is to stand up for the word of God which is so important to me. It means more to me than what I have.

My mindset as an athlete and as a man is to accept what God is asking me to do and to live my life expressing God's word.

I often say 'I didn't write the script, but I'm learning to live it out with the best of my ability for the honor of God, with dignity, with grace, with favor, embracing His word.'

I wouldn't be where I am without my faith.

If we don’t have the Word of God as the foundation of what we believe, we will have a faulty footing—it will not stand against the elements that will come against us. God has designed both our physical and spiritual lives to be ordered by one key attribute upon which the fruit of the Spirit is based—that foundation is love.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.

I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come.

When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.

Never base your faith on your feelings. Base it on God's Word.

If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.