Max Lucado Quotes

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Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.

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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.

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Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority.

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You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are....

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God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.

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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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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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Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

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The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left

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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.

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Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed and thorn-crowned. When you feel unloved, ascend this mount. Meditate long and hard on heaven's love for you.

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

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

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Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts.

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

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

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

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

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