Max Lucado Believe Quotations

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

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

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.

Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.