More Quotes by Max Lucado
If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will take all but one. He will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours.
For all its peculiarities and unevenness, the Bible has a simple story. God made man. Man rejected God. God won't give up until he wins him back. God will whisper. He will shout. He will touch and tug. He will take away our burdens; he'll even take away our blessings. If there are a thousand steps between us and him, he will take all but one. But he will leave the final one for us. The choice is ours. Please understand. His goal is not to make you happy. His goal is to make you His. His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need.
God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
When you're full of yourself, God can't fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us.
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now?
The presence of fear does not mean you have no faith. Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident.
Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.
Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
