Max Lucado God Quotations

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."

First, God does not send people to hell. He simply honors their choice. Hell is the ultimate expression of God's high regard for the dignity of man. He has never forced us to choose Him, even when that means we would choose Hell.

God has no cousins, only children.

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

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.

Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.

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.

As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.

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

Fear corrodes our confidence in God's goodness.

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?

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

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.

Want to learn to forgive? Then consider how you've been forgiven.

God loves you because He has chosen to do so.

And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

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.

God meets our needs one day at a time.

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world.

Do you believe that God is near? He wants you to. He wants you to know that He is in the midst of your world. Wherever you are as you read these words, He is present.

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.

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.

Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don't have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that.

There's an antidote to our fears- trust. If we trust God more,we can fear less.

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

The purpose of the Bible is simply to proclaim God's plan to save His children.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim.

The next time you find yourself alone in a dark alley facing the undeniables of life, don't cover them with a blanket, or ignore them with a nervous grin. Don't turn up the TV and pretend they aren't there. Instead, stand still, whisper his name, and listen. He is nearer than you think.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

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.

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

When a Christian stops growing, help is needed. If you are the same Christian you were a few months ago, be careful.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

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

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

God is faithful even when his children are not.

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.

Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.

What I'm urging people to do is trust in the sovereignty of God.

I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.