Max Lucado Quotes

If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf of ignorance which surrounds us.

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!

The human condition can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all experiences are of the past, all decisions are about the future. It is the great task of human knowledge to bridge this gap and to find those patterns in the past which can be projected into the future as realistic images.

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

I've been compared to people since the beginning. When you're starting out, you need a comparison so people will understand you right away.

Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding.

Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

It is necessary for the Bible, in order to be accommodated to the understanding of every man, to speak many things which appear to differ from the absolute truth so far as the bare meaning of the words is concerned.

I'm not comfortable with categories, and I distrust most definitions. The word 'definition' is based on the word 'finite,' which would seem to indicate that once we've defined something, we don't need to think about it anymore.

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.

If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.

An individual understands a concept, skill, theory, or domain of knowledge to the extent that he or she can apply it appropriately in a new situation.

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.