Max Lucado Quotes

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Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

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Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

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I don't like hassles. But I love Christmas because it reminds us how "God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God" (Rom. 8:28 NLT).

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When you recognize God as Creator, you will admire Him. When you recognize His wisdom, you will learn from Him. When you discover His strength, you will rely on Him. But only when He saves you will you worship Him.

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You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.

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If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

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The step between prudence and paranoia is short and steep. Prudence wears a seat belt. Paranoia avoids cars. Prudence washes with soap. Paranoia avoids human contact. Prudence saves for old age. Paranoia hoards even trash. Prudence prepares and plans, paranoia panics. Prudence calculates the risk and takes the plunge. Paranoia never enters the water.

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Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

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As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

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God saves, not God empathizes, cares, listens, helps, assists, or applauds.

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You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

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There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live.

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

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

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In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

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I choose goodness... I will go without a dollar before I take a dishonest one. I will be overlooked before I will boast. I will confess before I will accuse. I choose goodness.

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As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

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Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

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

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The cross is where God forgave his children without lowering his standards.

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You see, it's one thing to accept Him as Lord, another to recognize Him as Savior - but it's another matter entirely to accept Him as Father.

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Aren't you glad that God doesn't give you only that which you remember to thank him for?

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

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Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.

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Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

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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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If God is enough for you, then you'll always have enough, because you'll always have God.

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God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

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

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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.

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