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Max Lucado Quotes - Page 27

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People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I

People assume when they come into a church and see a person up there speaking, 'That person must be a good person.' My challenge through the years has been believing that: 'I guess I must be a really good person.' I struggle with it. It just helps me to keep that confessional posture.

Believe, Struggle, Years

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.

God, Christian, Religious

Max Lucado (2011). “The Great House of God”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

No acts are random or wasted.

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Are you weary? Catch your breath. Are you strong? Reserve passing judgment on the tired.

Strong, Tired, Judgment

Max Lucado (2013). “Facing Your Giants: God Still Does the Impossible”, p.75, Thomas Nelson

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Grace, Rejects, Presumptuous

Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.665, Thomas Nelson Inc

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

Jesus, Winter, Empty

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Hiding out with the enemy brings only temporary relief.

Enemy, Relief, Hiding

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

God, Christian, Religious

Max Lucado (2008). “Grace for the Moment Morning & Evening Edition: Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, p.510, Thomas Nelson Inc

Jesus is not "out of touch with our reality. He's been through weakness and testing, experienced it all - all but the sin. So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help" (Heb. 4:15 - 16 MSG).

Jesus, Reality, Msg

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I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Thinking, Justice, Church

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.

Jesus, Hurt, Dirty

Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.29, Thomas Nelson Inc

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven.

People, Heaven

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All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?

Running, Horse, Blessing

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

Thinking, Grace, Definitions

You are heaven's Halley's comet; we have one shot at seeing you shine.

Shining, Heaven, Comets

Max Lucado (2011). “Cure for the Common Life”, p.33, Thomas Nelson Inc

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

Book, Second Chance, Max

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I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.

Book, Writing, Thinking

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I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.

Thinking, Ideas, Grace

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You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

Pondering, Endure, Permanence

Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

Scot McKnight stirs the treasures of our Lord's life in an engaging fashion. He did so with The Jesus Creed, and does so again with 40 Days Living the Jesus Creed. Make sure this new guide for living is on your shelf.

Fashion, Jesus, Doe

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.

Jesus, Ignored, Spokes

Max Lucado (2013). “And the Angels Were Silent: The Final Week of Jesus”, p.59, Thomas Nelson Inc

I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.

Years, Interesting, Political

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I think that I speak a lot like I write.

Writing, Thinking, Speak

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No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

Unique, Personality, Trying

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I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

Firsts, Pastor

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