Max Lucado Quotes

The night before, go over your schedule and see what you're going to do and what the purpose of what you're doing is. I advocate having a two-column schedule. On the left, put down all your appointments and phone calls. On the right, put down what the purpose is.

Once you know what to expect, it gets easier and easier. And now I know what I have to do to prepare for each season and what to expect through each season.

Schedule your time. People always ask, 'How do you do it all?' I'm like a walking calendar. I literally make my snacks on a Sunday if I'm traveling on a Tuesday, and I'll pack them before I leave.

You want to be prepared for when you have to stop playing.

I'm not good at planning ahead because it's just too much. I plan, set it up and then don't think about it again until it's almost time. That's just how it goes.

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

I always designed my practice plans the night before and then made tweaks a few hours before practice began

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

Well this week's all about Seattle, so we've been doing our best to prepare for the Seahawks. I'm doing that, our team's doing that and we'll be ready to go Sunday. That's our focus.

Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

It's best to have your tools with you. If you don't, you're apt to find something you didn't expect and get discouraged.

We play by the rules, we play hard and we prepare hard. The work ethic of our team and preparation is like no other in my opinion and we try to make our fans in America proud.

Plan what you are going to wear ahead of time. If you're going to an important dinner, you should always plan what you're going to wear because you don't want to look silly.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

The temptation is for us to share our own opinions, our own thoughts and to speak from the whole realm of possibility. We can't do that as pastors. We need to have a strong voice of conviction, and the way we can do that is through Scripture.

The only adequate preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.

I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

I am very confident in preaching.