Max Lucado Quotes

I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.

Had I been more religious in my youth, I might have become a pastor, for it was the pastoral role I'd sought.

I'd make a bad preacher.

I write all my sermons.

If it squares with the Scripture, then let's go. If it's in conflict with the Scripture, then it's heresy.

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

I'm really passionate about God and religion, and I thought maybe I'm supposed to be a pastor.

I was born into a family of preachers.

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.

The Bible is the ultimate authority and infallible, not the pastor and not the elders. And it doesn't mean that you believe everything he says without examining it.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.

The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.

[The] doctrine of the total depravity of man makes it plain that the moral consciousness of man as he is today cannot be the source of information about what is ideal good or about what is the standard of the good.... No man living can even put the moral problem as he ought to put it, or ask the moral questions as he ought to ask them, unless he does so in the light of Scripture.

The moment religion organizes into a specific creed it becomes a political force. From Moses down to Brigham Young, every creed-founder has been a Statebuilder.

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The public forum is the place for religious discussion, not religious practices.

It has pleased God to place me head of the Reformed church in Scotland; I am a watchman...For that reason I am bound in conscience to blow the trumpet publicly.