Max Lucado Christian Quotations

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love.

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

Don't worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It's not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.

I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior.

Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.

We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God's clock you're in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

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

As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.

God has no cousins, only children.

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

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.

God's love supply is never empty.

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

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next.