Max Lucado Quotes

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

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Fear will always knock on your door. Just don't invite it in for dinner. And for heaven's sake, don't offer it a bed for the night.

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He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.

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Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can't budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed? God's seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.

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

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God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.

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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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Look at the Bethlehem birth. A king ordered a census. Joseph was forced to travel. Mary, as round as a ladybug, bounced on a donkey's back. The hotel was full. The hour was late. The event was one big hassle. Yet, out of the hassle, hope was born. It still is.

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It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. No one knows. Say only this. Your sons had to go to war, and mine did not. No one knows if it is a blessing or a curse. No one is wise enough to know. Only God knows.

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Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

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A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.

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Fear never wrote a symphony or poem, negotiated a peace treaty, or cured a disease. Fear never pulled a family out of poverty or a country out of bigotry. Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that. People who refused to consult or cower to their timidities did that. But fear itself? Fear herds us into a prison and slams the doors. Wouldn't it be great to walk out?

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

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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.

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

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Nature is God's first missionary. Where there is no Bible there are sparkling stars. Where there are not preachers there are spring times... If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God.

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Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

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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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Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurity

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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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We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

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Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

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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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The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness.

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