927 Quotes by Max Lucado

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach.

If anybody understands God’s order for his children, it’s someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others.

I am a spiritual being. After this body is dead, my spirit will soar. I refuse to let what will rot, rule the eternal. I choose self-control. I will be drunk only by joy. I will be impassioned only by my faith. I will be influenced only by God. I will be taught only by Christ. I choose self-control.

When it comes to Christ, you’ve got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don’t play games with him.

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign “thank you, God.”

It’s nothing mystical, necessarily. It’s nothing secretive. It’s just what we do with our body we do with our soul.

Who has more reason to worship than the astronomer who has seen the stars? Than the surgeon who has held a heart? Than the oceanographer who has pondered the depths?

Waiting is an expectant patience. It’s a patience that says, “I don’t know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something.”