Top 500 Max Lucado Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.”

— Max Lucado

402. “Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.”

— Max Lucado

403. “Most of my sermons are inspirational, and I believe people need that encouragement.”

— Max Lucado

404. “But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.”

— Max Lucado

405. “When you read that our heavenly home is similar to a bride, tell me, doesn’t it make you want to go home.”

— Max Lucado

406. “Aren’t you glad that God doesn’t give you only that which you remember to thank him for?”

— Max Lucado

407. “There’s something about compassion that causes society to say, ‘We’re going to take this person seriously.’ Take Mother Teresa. She was confrontational on abortion, but she wasn’t rejected by society.”

— Max Lucado

408. “Wide awake is Mary. My, how young she looks! Her head rests on the soft leather of Joseph’s saddle. The pain has been eclipsed by wonder. She looks into the face of the baby. Her son. Her Lord. His Majesty. At this point in history, the human being who best understands who God is and what he is doing is a teenage girl in a smelly stable. She can’t take her eyes off him. Somehow Mary knows she is holding God. So this is he. She remembers the words of the angel. “His kingdom will never end.”1.”

— Max Lucado

409. “If hurts were hairs, we’d all look like grizzlies.”

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410. “The cross, the zenith of history. All of the past pointed to it, and all of the future would depend upon it. It’s the great triumph of heaven: God is on the earth. And it is the great tragedy of earth: man has rejected God.”

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411. “God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days.”

— Max Lucado

412. “Imagine Jesus today: He is leaning over, bending down close to someone who is hurt. He’s listening. His eyes fill with tears as He hears that person’s troubles. Then His hand gently brushes away a tear. He was hurt once too. He understands.”

— Max Lucado

413. “The worst part of all is that, without forgiveness, bitterness is all that is left.”

— Max Lucado

414. “If you do not transform your pain, you will surely transmit it. – RICHARD ROHR.”

— Max Lucado

415. “Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.”

— Max Lucado

416. “If you concern yourself with your neighbor’s talents, you’ll neglect your own. But if you concern yourself with yours, you could inspire both!”

— Max Lucado

417. “What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, “I Can.” You’ll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.”

— Max Lucado

418. “A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.”

— Max Lucado

419. “Jesus spoke to those who had turned their backs on history. He spoke to those who had blatantly ignored sign after sign, servant after servant.”

— Max Lucado

420. “Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.”

— Max Lucado

421. “When you teach on a familiar text, you’re capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you’re having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.”

— Max Lucado

422. “Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.”

— Max Lucado

423. “This much is sure: contagious calm will happen to the degree that we turn to him.”

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424. “God uses every possible means to communicate with you. The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you. He wants to help you find your way home. Many.”

— Max Lucado

425. “All of my sermons become books. I’ve been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation.”

— Max Lucado

426. “Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There’s nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.”

— Max Lucado

427. “Forgiveness is choosing to see your offender with different eyes.”

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428. “Bloodstains, tearstains are everywhere. Joseph’s heart was rubbed raw against the rocks of disloyalty and miscarried justice. Yet time and time again God redeemed the pain. The torn robe became a royal one. The pit became a palace. The broken family grew old together. The very acts intended to destroy God’s servant turned out to strengthen him.”

— Max Lucado

429. “A split second is nothing compared to twenty-four hours. On God’s clock you’re in the middle of your millisecond. Compared to eternity, what is seventy, eighty, ninety years?”

— Max Lucado

430. “You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear.”

— Max Lucado

431. “How can a person deal with anxiety? You might try what one fellow did. He worried so much that he decided to hire someone to do his worrying for him. He found a man who agreed to be his hired worrier for a salary of $200,000 per year. After the man accepted the job, his first question to his boss was, “Where are you going to get $200,000 per year?” To which the man responded, “That’s your worry.”

— Max Lucado

432. “You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.”

— Max Lucado

433. “When we put someone in our jail cell of hatred, we are stuck guarding the door.”

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434. “The question is not, will God keep his promises, but, will we build our lives upon them?”

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435. “The ultimate solution to POVERTY is found in the COMPASSION of God’s people.”

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436. “There are times when God sends thunder to stir us. There are times when God sends blessings to lure us. But then there are times when God sends nothing but silence as he honors us with the freedom to choose where we spend eternity.”

— Max Lucado

437. “I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.”

— Max Lucado

438. “Not everybody can create a foundation that’s worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don’t enjoy doing.”

— Max Lucado

439. “Your requests change history because your prayers change God!”

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440. “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.”

— Max Lucado

441. “I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have.”

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442. “While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.”

— Max Lucado

443. “Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting.”

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444. “God has forgiven you; you’d be wise to do the same.”

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

— Max Lucado

446. “Your home is your giant-size privilege, your towering priority.”

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447. “David knew what mattered most. The presence of God. He begged God for it.”

— Max Lucado

448. “It’s nothing mystical, necessarily. It’s nothing secretive. It’s just what we do with our body we do with our soul.”

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449. “Blessed are those who know what on earth they are here on earth to do and set themselves about the business of doing it.”

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450. “Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.”

— Max Lucado