Quotes from Max Lucado

How we treat others is how we treat Jesus.

My salvation has nothing to do with my work and everything to do with the finished work of Christ on the cross.

It is not that we can't do good. We do. It's just that we can't keep from doing bad. In theological terms, we are "totally depraved." Though made in God's image, we have fallen. We're corrupt at the core. The very center of our being is selfish and perverse. David said, "I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me" (Ps. 51:5 NLT).

Those who try to keep their lives will lose them. But those who give up their lives will save them. LUKE 17:33

Truth is, we don't get grace. But it sure can get us.

You wonder how long my love will last? Find your answer on a splintered cross, on a craggy hill. That's me you see up there, your maker, your God, nail-stabbed and bleeding. Covered in spit and sin-soaked. "That's your sin I'm feeling. That's your death I'm dying. That's your resurrection I'm living. That's how much I love you." In

but he reserved his breath, or a soul, for you.

If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.

Happiness happens when you give." Doing good does good for the doer.

A whole new year is waiting for you. I pray that you'll pray for Jesus to grow in you, for everything you say and think and do to reflect more and more of him. For you and me, every day can be Christmas. Let's present the world with the greatest gift of all: Jesus.

Every level of inheritance requires a disinheritance from the devil. Satan must be moved off before the saint can move in.

Don't be too quick in your assessment of God's gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day.