Top 500 Max Lucado Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God’s grace approaches us.”

— Max Lucado

152. “Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign “thank you, God.””

— Max Lucado

153. “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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154. “Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.”

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155. “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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156. “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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157. “God’s blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.”

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158. “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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159. “You’re never without hope, because you’re never without prayer.”

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160. “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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161. “When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.”

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

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

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165. “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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166. “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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167. “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.”

— Max Lucado

168. “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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169. “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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170. “Each one of us should lead a life stirring enough to start a movement.”

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171. “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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172. “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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173. “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.”

— Max Lucado

174. “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.”

— Max Lucado

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

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

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

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180. “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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181. “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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182. “It’s okay to rest. Jesus fights when you cannot.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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191. “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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192. “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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193. “People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.”

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194. “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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195. “Don’t quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.”

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196. “Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.”

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197. “The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers.”

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198. “Unmet expectations are tough when it’s your wife or your husband, but it’s really tough when it’s God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is.”

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199. “Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life.”

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

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