Max Lucado

“There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it.”

“Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.”

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

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

“One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.”

“I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun.”

“Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.”

“My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.”

“You know people just assume, 'Well, all my life I'll be a worrier.' That doesn't have to be true. There's a way to drink from God's presence so much that worry begins to dissipate.”

“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.”

“The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'”

“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.”

“Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.”

“The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.”

“It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism.”

“God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.”

“Jesus tends to his people individually. He personally sees to our needs. We all receive Jesus' touch. We experience his care.”

“Don't measure the size of the mountain talk to the One who can move it.”

“I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”

“... he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.”