Max Lucado Grace Quotations

The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

I want a real take-home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters.

I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

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.

God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.

God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is.

When grace moves in... guilt moves out

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity.

Grace is not blind. It sees the hurt full well. But chooses to see God's forgiveness even more.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

We will find grace to help us when we need it

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.