Enjoy the words of the popular author in these Max Lucado quotes.
Max Lucado is a highly successful author. He has sold over 120 million copies in over 50 different languages. He is also a pastor who has worked to help plant churches. The books that he writes originate from his sermon series.
Max Lucado has received multiple forms of recognition for the work that he does and has been a guest on many different shows.
The Max Lucado quotes below include words of wisdom, faithful encouragement, and instruction for living a Christian life and finding the peace that you are looking for.
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Max Lucado quotes from his book When God Whispers Your Name
1. “We learn brevity from Jesus. His greatest sermon can be read in eight minutes. His best-known story can be read in ninety seconds. He summarized prayer in five phrases. He silenced accusers with one challenge. He rescued a soul with one sentence. He summarized the Law in three verses and reduced all his teachings to one command. He made his point and went home.” – Max Lucado
2. “The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.” – Max Lucado
3. “Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.” – Max Lucado
4. “Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.” – Max Lucado
5. “Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you’re sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.” – Max Lucado
6. “Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these, I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace.” – Max Lucado
7. “As soon as you can, pay your debts. As long as you can, give the benefit of the doubt. As much as you can, give thanks. He’s already given us more than we deserve.” – Max Lucado
8. “I think it’s noteworthy that the Almighty didn’t act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn’t holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn’t a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn’t keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.” – Max Lucado
9. “For the next twelve hours, I will be exposed to the day’s demands. It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I’m free to choose. And so I choose. I choose love . . . No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. I choose joy . . . I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance.” – Max Lucado
10. “For that’s what faith is. Faith is trusting what the eye can’t see. Eyes see the prowling lion. Faith sees Daniel’s angel. Eyes see storms. Faith sees Noah’s rainbow. Eyes see giants. Faith sees Canaan.” – Max Lucado
Max Lucado quotes from his book 3:16 The Numbers Of Hope
11. “We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.” – Max Lucado
12. “Jesus spoke of hell often. Thirteen percent of his teachings refer to eternal judgment and hell.4 Two-thirds of his parables relate to resurrection and judgment.5 Jesus wasn’t cruel or capricious.” – Max Lucado
13. “Isn’t it enough that these hands will be pierced in the morning? Must they scrub grime tonight? And the disciples . . . do they deserve to have their feet washed?” – Max Lucado
14. “The heart of the human problem is the heart of the human. And God’s treatment is prescribed in John 3:16.” – Max Lucado
15. “He planted a one-word caution sign between you and hell’s path: perish. “Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). Jesus spoke of hell often. Thirteen percent of his teachings refer to eternal judgment and hell.4 Two-thirds of his parables relate to resurrection and judgment 5 Jesus wasn’t cruel or capricious, but he was blunt. His candor stuns.” – Max Lucado
16. “You do things God does. Think. Question. Reflect. You blueprint buildings, chart sea crossings, and swallow throat lumps when your kids say their alphabet. You, like Adam, have a soul.” – Max Lucado
17. “The Waves Are Listening “Even the wind and the waves obey him!” —MARK 4:41 Jesus and the disciples are in a boat crossing the Sea of Galilee. A storm arises suddenly, and what was placid becomes violent—monstrous waves rise out of the sea and slap the boat.” – Max Lucado
18. “Hell, like heaven, is a location, not a state of mind, not a metaphysical dimension of floating spirits, but an actual place populated by physical beings.” – Max Lucado
19. “Mark it down: God loves you with an unearthly love. You can’t win it by being winsome. You can’t lose it by being a loser. But you can be blind enough to resist it.” – Max Lucado
20. “You will be at your best forever, Even now you have good moments. Occasional glimpses of your heavenly self. When you change your baby’s diaper, forgive your boss’s temper, tolerate your spouse’s moodiness, you display traces of saintliness.” – Max Lucado
Max Lucado quotes from his book, Cure For The Common Life: Living In Your Sweet Spot
21. “When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.” – Max Lucado
22. “The only mistake is not to risk making one.” – Max Lucado
23. “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.” – Max Lucado
24. “Look back over your life. What have you consistently done well? What have you loved to do? Stand at the intersection of your affections and successes and find your uniqueness.” – Max Lucado
25. “Don’t worry about skills you don’t have. Don’t covet strengths others do have. Just extract your uniqueness.” – Max Lucado
26. “You cannot be anything you want to be. But you can be everything God wants you to be.” – Max Lucado
27. “You are the only you God made… God made you and broke the mold.” – Max Lucado
28. “When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment.” – Max Lucado
29. “If you aren’t you, we don’t get you.” – Max Lucado
30. “He made you you-nique.” – Max Lucado
Max Lucado quotes from his book, He Chose The Nails: What God Did To Win Your Heart
31. “There is no one God won’t use.” – Max Lucado
32. “This is why he refused to close his fist. He saw the list! What kept him from resisting? This warrant, this tabulation of your failures. He knew the price of those sins was death. He knew the source of those sins was you, and since he couldn’t bear the thought of eternity without you, he chose the nails.” – Max Lucado
33. “If the Bible is called the Good Book, it’s not because its people are. Blood flows as freely through the stories as the ink through the quills that penned them.” – Max Lucado
34. “Can you imagine the restaurant host removing his tuxedo coat and offering it to me? Jesus does. We’re not talking about an ill-fitting, leftover jacket. He offers a robe of seamless purity and dons my patchwork coat of pride, greed, and selfishness. “He changed places with us” (Gal. 3:13). He wore our sin so we could wear his righteousness.” – Max Lucado
35. “And sometimes, no, oftentimes, we allow those mistakes to keep us from God. Our guilty conscience becomes a curtain that separates us from God. As a result, we hide from our Master.” – Max Lucado
36. “Practically put, we love our neighbor and refrain from gossip. We refuse to cheat on taxes and spouses and do our best to love people who are tough to love. Do we do this in order to be saved? No. These are “the good things that result from being saved.” – Max Lucado
37. “God can turn any tragedy into a triumph, if only you will wait and watch.” – Max Lucado
38. “The fruit of sin is thorns—spiny, prickly, cutting thorns. I emphasize the “point” of the thorns to suggest a point you may have never considered: if the fruit of sin is thorns, isn’t the thorny crown on Christ’s brow a picture of the fruit of our sin that pierced his heart?” – Max Lucado
39. “But that was before the curse before the shadow fell across the garden of Adam before the shadow fell across the heart of Adam. And ever since the curse, we’ve been different. Beastly. Ugly. Defiant. Angry. We do things we know we shouldn’t do and wonder why we did them.” – Max Lucado
40. “We are at our best when we are giving. In fact, we are most like God when we are giving.” – Max Lucado
Max Lucado quotes from his book, Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear
41. “Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will.” – Max Lucado
42. “Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.” – Max Lucado
43. “Fear corrodes our confidence in God’s goodness. We begin to wonder if love lives in heaven. If God can sleep in our storms if his eyes stay shut when our eyes grow wide if he permits storms after we got on his boat, does he care? Fear unleashes a swarm of doubts, anger-stirring doubts. Fear at its center is a perceived loss of control.” – Max Lucado
44. “Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It’s not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It’s whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.” – Max Lucado
45. “The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.” – Max Lucado
46. “Fear, at its center, is a perceived loss of control. When life spins wildly, we grab for a component of life we can manage: our diet, the tidiness of a house, the armrest of a plane, or, in many cases, people. The more insecure we feel, the meaner we become.” – Max Lucado
47. “When safety becomes our god, we worship the risk-free life. Can the safety lover do anything great? Can the risk-averse accomplish noble deeds? For God? For others? No. The fear-filled cannot love deeply. Love is risky. They cannot give to the poor. Benevolence has no guarantee of return. The fear-filled cannot dream wildly. What if their dreams sputter and fall from the sky? The worship of safety emasculates greatness. No wonder Jesus wages such a war against fear. His” – Max Lucado
48. “Fear of insignificance creates the result it dreads, arrives at the destination it tries to avoid, facilitates the scenario it disdains.” – Max Lucado
49. “Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts.” – Max Lucado
50. “Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?” – Max Lucado
What did you learn from these Max Lucado quotes?
If you enjoyed any of these Max Lucado quotes, you may benefit from reading his entire books.
He shares that he tries to write books for people that don’t like reading books. That means even if you don’t typically enjoy reading, you may find yourself quickly making your way through his books.
If you are interested in learning more about God and the impact that being a Christian can have on your life, these books can help get you pointed in the right direction. If one of the quotes really speaks to you, you could start with the book that it came from and work from there.
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