Quotes from Max Lucado

He empowers us to be what he calls us to be.

Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves.

PRECIOUS AS IT IS TO PROCLAIM,          Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"CHRIST DIED FOR THE WORLD,"          EVEN SWEETER IT IS TO WHISPER,          Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã…"CHRIST DIED FOR ME.

You don't have to live with a dehydrated heart. Receive Christ's work on the Cross, the energy of his Spirit, his lordship over your life, his unending, unfailing love. Drink deeply and often. And out of you will flow rivers of living water. from Come Thirsty

Just as a happy child cannot mis-hug, the sincere heart cannot mis-pray.

In the treatment of anxiety, a proper understanding of sovereignty is huge. Anxiety is often the consequence of perceived chaos. If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.

The next time you fear the future, rejoice in the Lord's sovereignty. Rejoice in what he has accomplished. Rejoice that he is able to do what you cannot do. Fill your mind with thoughts of God.

Happiness is less an emotion and more a decision, a decision to bear with one another.

Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you" (1 Pet. 5:7). (The German word for worry means "to strangle." The Greek word means "to divide the mind." Both are accurate. Worry is a noose on the neck and a distraction of the mind, neither of which is befitting for joy.)

This is the loneliest point in history. The last moment of true abandonment. From here on, abandonment is nothing more than a myth. And loneliness? A choice.

Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.

Find something you like to do, and do it so well that people pay you to do it.