52 Max Lucado Quotes

Max is a pastor and author who has written over 50 titles selling millions of copies. He has become a very famous Christian writer and is the only author to have books awarded the Christian book of the year 3 separate years. In his early years in college, he actually wanted to become a lawyer, but changed his mind because of a Bible class that was mandatory at his collage. Max was the lead pastor for 20 years at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas and retired in 2007 to have limited role at Oak Hills but continues to write.

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God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
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Meet your fears with faith.
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You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
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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.
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Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. Faith is the belief that God will do what is right.
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If today were your last, would you do what you're doing?
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No one can pray and worry at the same time.
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God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
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You can never go where God is not.
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The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.
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Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.
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God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.
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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.
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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.
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Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme--salvation through faith in Christ.
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If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did.
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To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
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Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart.
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If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace.
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God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
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The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
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You can endure change by pondering His permanence.
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Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.
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After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.
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Find joy in the ordinary.
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Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.
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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.
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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 our sin.
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God is faithful even when his children are not.
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We're important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.
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People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.
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What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.
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The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
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Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.
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God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.
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Baptism separates the tire kickers from the car buyers.
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Is it possible for an unbaptized believer to be saved? Yes, definitely. Should every believer be baptized? Yes, definitely.
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Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit.
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
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God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it. Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God.
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Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
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God's solution is a prayer away!
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God never approves sexual union outside of marriage.
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
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There are many unacceptable reasons for war. Imperialism. Financial gain. Religion. Family feuds. Racial arrogance. There are many unacceptable motives for war. But there is one time when war is condoned and used by God: wickedness.
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Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?
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Just when the truth about life sinks in, his truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.
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To ask God to prohibit war, then, is to ask him to prohibit the consequence of human behavior. Something he has never been wont to do. As long as there is sin there will be war.
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