927 Quotes by Max Lucado

Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart – poisoned as it is with pride and pain – and replacing it with his own. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn’t just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.

All of my sermons become books. I’ve been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.

Relationships don’t thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.

Courage does not panic; it prays. Courage does not bemoan; it believes. Courage does not languish; it listens.

Don’t measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.

It’s God’s job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

Yesterday you can’t alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God’s plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.

In Matthew 24:8, Jesus called these challenges birth pangs. Birth pangs must occur before a new birth. During this time the mother keeps focused on the end result, the moment she gets to hold that beautiful baby in her arms. She knows birth pangs don’t last forever and they signal a new beginning in her life. Calamities and catastrophes are the earthly pains that must occur before the birth of the new world. Hold on. Grit your teeth. The next push could be the last.