Max Lucado

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy.”

“May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.”

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”

“My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.”

“When grace moves in... guilt moves out”

“If the Bible is called the Good Book, it's not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.”

“You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.”

“Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”

“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.”

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

“We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.”

“The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.”

“Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.”

“We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly.”

“When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.”

“God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.”

“God doesn’t manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.”

“One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.”

“‎Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can't win it by being winsome. You can't lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it”