Top 500 Max Lucado Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Don’t quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.”

— Max Lucado

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

— Max Lucado

203. “See your enemies, not as God’s failures, but as God’s projects.”

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204. “You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it.”

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

— Max Lucado

206. “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.”

— Max Lucado

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

— Max Lucado

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

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209. “When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.”

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210. “When no one is watching, live as if someone is.”

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211. “God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.”

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212. “God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach.”

— Max Lucado

213. “We are building our lives on the promises of God. Because his Word is unbreakable, our hope is unshakable. We do not stand on the problems of life or the pain in life. We stand on the great and precious promises of God.”

— Max Lucado

214. “God would prefer we have an occasional limp than a perpetual strut.”

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215. “We act like God’s only good when the outcome is good. We say, ‘We’ve got a good God because I’ve got a good job.’ But what if I don’t have a good job? Does that mean God’s not good anymore?”

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216. “Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.”

— Max Lucado

217. “Waiting is an expectant patience. It’s a patience that says, “I don’t know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something.””

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218. “You are God’s child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.”

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219. “I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.”

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220. “Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.”

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221. “The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God’s plan to save His children. It asserts that man is lost and needs to be saved. And it communicates the message that Jesus is the God in the flesh sent to save His children.”

— Max Lucado

222. “You’ll regret opening your mouth. You’ll rarely regret keeping it shut.”

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223. “Greed is not defined by what something costs; it is measured by what it costs you. If anything costs you your faith or your family, the price is too high. Such is the point Jesus makes in the parable of the portfolio.”

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224. “Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.”

— Max Lucado

225. “Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you’ll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.”

— Max Lucado

226. “Compassion gives us a common ground to stand on regardless of your faith background. It gives us a chance to stand shoulder-to-shoulder rather than go fist-to-fist with somebody.”

— Max Lucado

227. “God’s love supply is never empty.”

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228. “Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go.”

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229. “In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.”

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230. “Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don’t endanger us in our relationship.”

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231. “I don’t think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.”

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232. “God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.”

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233. “The duty of the branch is to cling to the vine.”

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234. “His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.”

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235. “He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.”

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236. “We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God’s favorite words.”

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237. “To live as God’s child is to know that you are loved by your Maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your Father. Nothing more.”

— Max Lucado

238. “Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.”

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239. “Today’s belief is tomorrow’s behavior. If you want to be happier person tomorrow, sow seeds of happiness today.”

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240. “When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!”

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241. “A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.”

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242. “Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.”

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243. “Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people.”

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244. “When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.”

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245. “Choose satisfaction over salary. Better to be happy with little than miserable with much.”

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246. “Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!”

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247. “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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248. “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. Rather than tell you to change, he creates the change. Do you clean up so he can accept you? No, he accepts you and begins cleaning you up. His dream isn’t just to get you into heaven but to get heaven into you.”

— Max Lucado

249. “The only mistake is not to risk making one.”

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250. “As we meditate on Christ’s life, we find strength for our own.”

— Max Lucado