Top 100 Max Lucado Quotes
#1. 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
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#2. God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue ... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.
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#3. You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do, or what you have done, but simply because you are
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#4. God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.
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#5. Each star, numbered. Each star, named! Like every grain of sand. Every hair on his head. Every trouble that filled his day. Created. Numbered. Known.
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#6. Out of the lions' den for Daniel, the prison for Peter, the whale's belly for Jonah, Goliath's shadow for David the storm for the disciples, disease for the lepers, doubt for Thomas, the grave for Lazarus, and the shackles for Paul. God gets us through stuff.
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#7. Your financial struggles have not gone unnoticed in heaven.
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#8. May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.
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#9. My conversations with Trump supporters have left me with more questions than answers.
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#10. All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.
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#11. It does little good to make the trip and miss the journey!
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#12. the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven.
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#13. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim God's plan and passion to save his children. That is the reason this book has endured through the centuries. It is the treasure map that leads us to God's highest treasure: eternal life.
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#14. Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen.
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#15. 13I pray that the God who gives hope will fill you with much joy and peace while you trust in him. Then your hope will overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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#16. I'm protective of the reputation of Christ and the church.
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#17. To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.
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#18. When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!
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#19. If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?
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#20. Blessed be the Lord, who has not left you this day without a redeemer. - RUTH 4:14 ESV
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#21. My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.
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#22. Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.
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#23. There are certain things no one can do for you.
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#24. Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.
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#25. Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.
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#26. Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.
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#27. I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
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#28. But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention
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#29. Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.
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#30. Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher").
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#31. It is only when we let go of life as we know it that we discover true life - the glorious plan laid out by God.
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#32. 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.
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#33. Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
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#34. Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.
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#35. You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are ...
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#36. Trusting Christ for salvation but resisting transformation. We occasionally flip the switch, but most of the time we settle for shadows.
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#37. The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
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#38. Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.
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#39. I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.
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#40. The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.
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#41. The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.
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#42. There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.
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#43. Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains.
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#44. Our kids were God's kids first ... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.
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#45. God's present is his presence. His greatest gift is himself.
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#46. Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.
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#47. For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
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#48. Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
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#49. What child, whilst summer is happening, bothers to think that summer will end? What child when snow is on the ground stops to remember that not long ago the ground was snowless?
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#50. The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.
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#51. Sunsets steal our breath. Caribbean blue stills our hearts. Newborn babies stir our tears. But take all these away - strip away the sunsets, oceans, and cooing babies - and leave us in the Sahara, and we still have reason to dance in the sand. Why? Because God is with us.
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#52. Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.
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#53. A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus.
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#54. As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.
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#55. Good days. Bad days. God is in all days.
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#56. God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
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#57. 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.
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#58. John teaches us that the strongest relationship with Christ may not necessarily be a complicated one. He teaches us that the greatest webs of loyalty are spun, not with airtight theologies or foolproof philosophies, but with friendships: stubborn, selfless, joyful friendships.
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#59. Your difficulty, your disease, your conflict are preparing you to be a voice of encouragement to your brothers.
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#60. The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas.
The latter will get you to heaven.
Take your pick.
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#61. Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
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#62. When grace moves in... guilt moves out
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#63. God forgets the past ... Imitate Him..
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#64. Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.
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#65. The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.
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#66. Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
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#67. (Reaching for the Bible on the end table.) There's an answer for every occasion in here. Like a map for life.
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#68. David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.
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#69. There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.
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#70. Identity: smack-dab in the middle ... Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake.
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#71. And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.
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#72. God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning. Face it, friend, He's crazy about you.
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#73. There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn't keep him from coming.
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#75. It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.
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#76. 8But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were still sinners.
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#77. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning ... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!
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#78. Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person.
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#79. The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.
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#80. Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
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#81. Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.
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#82. Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority.
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#83. People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
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#84. Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace ... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy
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#85. Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny.
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#86. Be fiercely loyal to one spouse. Fiercely loyal. Don't even look twice at someone else. No flirting. No teasing. No loitering at her desk or lingering in his office.
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#87. Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
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#88. It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.
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#89. God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
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#90. How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.
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#91. When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.
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#92. Our God is abundant in love and steadfast in mercy. He saves us, not because we trust in a symbol, but because we trust in a Savior.
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#93. Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.
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#94. 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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#95. Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.
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#96. When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.
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#97. You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.
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#98. The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.
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#99. When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.
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#100. God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.
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