Max Lucado Quotes

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

If I know that I shall be as an angel, and more; if I shall behold all God has made; if he shall own me for his son and exalt me to honor in his presence, I shall not fear to die, nor shall I dread the grave where Christ once lay.

When it comes to your hero, what the readers really fall in love with are his flaws. No one ever falls in love with a perfect hero.

And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.

Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.

Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by Him who is above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.

Meditation is waiting on God.

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

There cannot be heaven without Christ. He is the sum total of bliss; the fountain from which heaven flows, the element of which heaven is composed. Christ is heaven and heaven is Christ.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings

I think everybody has a purpose. Everybody is made to be a picture of how good and glorious God is, and I think sometimes we'll get it confused and think because we mess up, we make mistakes or we have some blemishes in our record, that our purpose is somehow messed up. But actually that only serves to further paint a picture of how good God is when he uses people who are messed up just like me.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone.