Quotes from Max Lucado

You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

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

God's solution is a prayer away!

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

You long for one true friend? You have one. And because you do, you have a choice. You can... ponder the malice of your monster or the kindness of your Christ.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.

Christianity teaches salvation by grace through faith, every other religion teaches salvation through works and merit.

The big news of the Bible is not that you fight for God but that God fights for you.

It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life.

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.

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

There is nothing on earth that can satisfy our deepest longing. We long to see God. The leaves of life are rustling with the rumor that we will - and we won't be satisfied until we do.

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change.