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" 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
God
My Life
Life
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" We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges. "
Max Lucado
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" A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God. "
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" A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders. "
Max Lucado
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Nation
" God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant. "
Max Lucado
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Elephant
Never
" One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make. "
Max Lucado
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Spiritual
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" One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death. "
Max Lucado
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" There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it. "
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Love
You
Time
" You change your life by changing your heart. "
Max Lucado
Inspirational
Heart
Life
" I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God. "
Max Lucado
Glory
Believe
I Believe
" It seems to me that election season is just a Petri dish for anger and cynicism. "
Max Lucado
Season
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Anger
" My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges. "
Max Lucado
Time
Everything
Faith
" 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
Society
Mother
Abortion
" The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.' "
Max Lucado
Life
Choices
Poor
" About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go. "
Max Lucado
Day
God
Morning
" 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. "
Max Lucado
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Never
Think
" The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. "
Max Lucado
Me
Heart
God
" If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too. "
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Pain
Life
God
" Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions. "
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Talk
Compassion
Out
" Be a doer, not a stewer. "
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" Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be. "
Max Lucado
Heaven
Expect
Earth
" I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun. "
Max Lucado
Simple
Mom
Man
" God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed. "
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You
Will
Need
" Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own. "
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Grace
Pride
God
" Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state. "
Max Lucado
Thought
My Life
Me
" A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. "
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Turn
Man
Orchestra
" When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor. "
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Nice
Compliment
God
" If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help. "
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End
Courage
Death
" My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story. "
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Book
Bible
God
" Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow. "
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" I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. "
Max Lucado
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People
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