Quotes from Max Lucado

God's glory is the big news of the Bible, and my desire is that it would be all about me, but really it's all about God's glory.

The Bible is full of stories of men and women who've found themselves in frightening situations but who chose to look up rather than look down - look up in faith - and God got them through it.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

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.

Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.

Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence.

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.

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.

God has work for you to do.

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

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.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.