Have you ever heard of Max Lucado? Perhaps his name sounds familiar to you or perhaps you have never heard him, but from now on it is more than likely that you will be interested in his thoughts. Max Lucado was born in 1955 in the United States. graduated from Andrews High School, graduating in Communication from Abilene Christian University with a Master's degree in Biblical Studies from it.
He is currently a best-selling Christian writer. He is also a preacher at Oak Hills Church of Christ in San Antonio, Texas. His followers are many and throughout his career he has written more than 50 books and has more than 80 million printed copies for sale. If you want to know more about him you just have to understand his thoughts and thus know why he is so important to all his followers.
Quotes by Max Lucado
He always tries to do good, he was a missionary together with his wife. Sometimes he turns down invitations to television interviews when it means canceling his family or work commitments. He is not a man who is consumed by sales or his achievements, he tries to keep a humble heart.
- To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
- You change your life by changing your heart.
- Can you imagine a life without fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
- The proud man is seldom a grateful person because he never believes that he has received as much as he deserves.
- Sometimes God allows tragedies. He allows the soil to dry out and the stems to grow bare. It allows Satan to wreak havoc. But it does not allow it to succeed.
- Do not see your adversities as an interruption of life, but as a preparation for living. Nobody said that the road would be easy or that it would be without difficulties. But God will use every tribulation for a good thing.
- About four days a week, I do pretty well with a morning prayer time. But still, it is a rambling kind of thing. What I've learned to do best is try to keep my mind turned to God and my ear turned to God all day, and I think I'm better at that, but I have a long way to go.
- You know people just assumed, 'Well, all my life I'm going to be a haunted. That doesn't have to be true. There is a way of drinking in God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.
- The only mistake is not risking making one.
- People look at the way we act rather than listen to what we say.
- A little rain can change the stem of a flower. A little love can change a life.
- Love, joy, peace, kindness, faith, goodness, and self-control. To them I commit my day.
- Don't let race obstacles keep you from enjoying the awards ceremony at the end.
- The people who make a difference are not those with credentials, but those who care about it.
- The past doesn't have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have something to say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
- The key is this: tackle today's issues with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You don't have the strength for tomorrow yet. You have enough for today.
- Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
- Everything changes when we open ourselves to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
- Lower your expectations on earth. This is not heaven, don't expect it to be.
- There is no way for our little minds to understand the love of God. But that does not mean that he does not reach us.
- A woman's heart should be so hidden in god that a man would have to search god just to find her.
- Forgive and give as if it were the last chance. Love as if there is no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
- Faith is not just the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do the right thing.
- Although we cannot see his purpose and plan, the lord of heaven is on his throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.
- Forgiveness is opening a door to free someone and realizing that you were the prisoner.
- Gratitude lifts our gaze, takes our eyes off the things we lack so that we can see the blessings we possess. Nothing kills the winter chill of the day like the breeze of gratitude.
- Don't worry about having the right words; worry about having the right heart. He does not seek eloquence, only honesty.
- You were not an accident. You were not mass produced. You are not a mass-assembled product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and positioned on earth by the master craftsman.
- We have considered our suffering differently. "My pain shows the absence of God" would be replaced by: "My pain broadens the purpose of God."
- If god had a refrigerator, your face would be on it. If I had a wallet, your photo would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
- God loves you as you are, but refuses to leave you as you are. He wants you to be like Jesus.
- Be a kid again. Laugh Cookie Monster. Take a nap. Ask for forgiveness if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a kid again.
- Adam accused Eve. Cain killed his younger brother. Abraham lied about Sarah. Rebekah favored Jacob. Jacob tricked Esau and immediately spawned a gang of ruffians. The book of Genesis is full of family disasters.
- God's thoughts are not our thoughts, they are not even like ours. We are not even in the same neighborhood. We think: protect the body; he thinks: save the soul. We dream of a salary increase; he dreams of raising a dead man. We avoid pain and seek peace. God uses pain to bring peace. We decide: "I will live before I die." He commands us: "Die so that you can live." We love what is corrupted. He loves what endures. We rejoice in our achievements. He rejoices in our confessions. We show our kids the Nike star and say with a million dollar smile, "Be like Mike." God points to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and pierced side and says: "Be like Christ."
