Top 500 Max Lucado Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Here’s what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.”

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152. “Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.”

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153. “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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154. “Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

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155. “We’re important, but not essential; valuable, but not indispensable. We have a part in the play, but we are not the main act. A song to sing, but we are not the featured voice. God is.”

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156. “We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.”

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157. “If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God’s courage and his help.”

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158. “Aging is God’s idea. It’s one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.”

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159. “God has the final word on your life and His word is grace.”

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160. “Don’t equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.”

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161. “We exist to exhibit God, to display his glory. We serve as canvases for his brush stroke, papers for his pen, soil for his seeds, glimpses of his image.”

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162. “Bread of Life? Jesus lived up to the title. But an unopened loaf does a person no good. Have you received the bread? Have you received God’s forgiveness?”

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163. “God’s blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.”

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164. “Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.”

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165. “When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.”

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166. “Be quick to pray. Stop talking to yourself. Talk to Christ.”

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167. “Though the Bible was written over sixteen centuries by at least forty authors, it has one central theme-salvation through faith in Christ.”

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168. “If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.”

— Max Lucado

169. “You may go days without thinking of God, but there’s never a moment when He’s not thinking of you.”

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170. “There are some facts that will never change. One fact is that you are forgiven. If you are in Christ, when he sees you, your sins are covered-he doesn’t see them. He sees you better than you see yourself.”

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171. “Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we’re here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.”

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172. “The magical dust of Christmas glittered on the cheeks of humanity ever so briefly, reminding us of what is worth having and what we were intended to be.”

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173. “Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.”

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174. “Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior.”

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175. “To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.”

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176. “Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don’t. Recognizing the treasure in the simple – a child’s hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.”

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177. “We need hope. There’s nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.”

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178. “To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast.”

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179. “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.”

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180. “Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.”

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181. “Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God’s house is a place of peace.”

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182. “The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional.”

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183. “In our faith we follow in someone’s steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It’s the principle of discipleship.”

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184. “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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185. “It’s okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.”

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186. “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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187. “Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.”

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188. “Regardless of the circumstances that surrounded your arrival, you are not an accident. God planned you before you were born.”

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189. “When you keep the porch light on for the prodigal child, you do what God does every single moment.”

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190. “God offers authentic LOVE. His devotion is the real deal. But He won’t give you the genuine until you surrender the imitations.”

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191. “What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.”

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192. “God’s solution is a prayer away!”

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193. “Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter.”

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194. “When you give a gift to one of God’s children, you give a gift to God.”

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195. “Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can.”

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196. “Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don’t resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God’s strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.”

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197. “If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God’s story is really our story too.”

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198. “Prayer pushes us through life’s slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.”

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199. “People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”

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200. “There is one word to describe the night He came – ordinary... But God dances amidst the common. And that night He did a waltz.”

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