Quotes from Max Lucado

God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

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

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.

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

God will restore his planet and his children to their Garden of Eden splendor. It'll be perfect. Perfect in grandeur. Perfect in righteousness. Perfect in harmony.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

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

God understands how you feel and has faced what you face.

God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.

The moment Mary touched God's face is the moment God made his case: there's no place he will not go.

God knows what it's like to be a human. When I talk to him about deadlines or long lines or tough times, he understands. He's been there. He's been here.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

God has no cousins, only children.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

There's no person God cannot reach.

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