Max Lucado Quotes

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

You have to turn it around and say God still has a great plan for my life. I may not understand things that happen, but faith is all about trusting when you don't understand it.

You don't need to know what tomorrow holds; all you need to know is the One who holds tomorrow.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole

You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith, especially in Cleveland.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

The principle part of faith is patience.

Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.