Max Lucado Quotes

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.

I realised that if I wanted to carry on with my musical dreams, I had to change, so I started meditating, and I changed my life entirely.

a man can radically change his life and attain to a deeper meaning, a more perfect integration, a more complete fulfillment, a more total liberty of spirit than are possible in the routines of a purely active existence centered on money-making.

So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

I am now trying to trust the universe to take care of me and not necessarily rely on other people to make me happy.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.

We have to be careful not to look for confidence in the acceptance of others because true confidence only comes from knowing God.

I started making some proper decisions, getting things in order. It's kind of like cleaning up your house. I was looking for direction for what God wanted me to do - and that's when I got a call about The Passion.

I am not a spiritual guy, but all of a sudden I felt the need to really feel things.

I would say I was always very ambitious and goal-oriented, but rather than being just a go-getter hustler, now I surrender a lot more and I trust my path a lot more.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

I walked away from going to church when I was 8. I didn't set foot in another church until I was 28.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I can remember the night I became a Christian. And man, this weight came off of me and all that kind of stuff. What I didn't realize was, that was just the beginning - of a huge journey.