Max Lucado Quotes

I could imagine God saying to a lot of us, "Hey, I'm God, and you're not. You're not the general manager of the universe." And the greatest stress reliever is take God seriously, but don't take yourself seriously.

'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe.

With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.

Whatever God has given me, I feel blessed but I don't take it for granted.

I used to be real cocky about what I do but then I realized it's not me, all of this is really God's gift and whenever He want to, He can take it away.

We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to our roots. When things come together, we know some of it is Barack, some of it is us-but a lot of it has nothing to do with either of us.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

The presence of any humility in my life is purely and completely an evidence of God's grace. From my perspective, I am not a humble man. I am a proud man pursuing humility by the grace of God.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

If we constantly give God the glory, then we don't have any glory to keep for ourselves.

There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground!

It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Perhaps the virtue of coming from a place like Tasmania is that you had the great gift of knowing that you were not the centre of things, yet life was no less where you were.

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Fame and stuff like that is all very cool, but at the end of the day, we're all human beings. Although what I do is incredibly surreal and fun and amazing and I'm really grateful for it, I don't believe my own press release, do you know what I mean?

The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be.