Max Lucado Religious Quotations

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.

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.

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.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

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

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.

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.

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.'