Max Lucado
American pastor and author, born 1955
20 quotes.
Quotes by Max Lucado
- A dead soul has no life, cut off from God, the soul withers and dies. The consequence of sin is not a bad day or bad mood but a dead soul.
- A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
- A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
- Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
- Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional
- Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
- God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.
- Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
- Let your failures refine you, not define you.
- Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.
- The greatest calamity is not to feel far from home when you are, but to feel right at home when you are not.
- The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
- The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
- Thoughts have consequences. Healing from anxiety requires healthy thinking. Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it's the way you look at it.
- Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
- You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.
- You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you.
- You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
- Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.