Quotes from Max Lucado

The supreme force in salvation is God's grace. Not our works. Not our talents. Not our feelings. Not our strength. Salvation is God's sudden

Not everyone is bound for a life of substance abuse and addiction—but the moment you think you're untouchable is the moment you're most likely headed for trouble. If you're going to be obsessed with something, make God your choice. That's a habit worth keeping.

The formula is simple: Perceived control creates calm. Lack of control gives birth to fear.

When you are wondering what to do with your worst nightmare, you have to choose. Faith or fear, God's purpose or random history, a God who knows and cares or a God who isn't there? We all choose. Choose to trust God's promises. Choose to believe that God is up to something good even though all you see looks bad. Choose to believe because God is faithful.

Anxiety increases as perceived control diminishes.

To accept God's grace is to accept God's offer to be adopted into his family.

The second redemption upstaged the first. God sent not Moses but Jesus. He smote not Pharaoh but Satan. Not with ten plagues but a single cross. The Red Sea didn't open, but the grave did, and Jesus led anyone who wanted to follow him to the Land of No More. No more law keeping. No more striving after God's approval. 'You can rest now,' he told them.

If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

Bob," I have inquired, "have I said something to upset you?" "Mary," I have asked, "there seems to be tension between us. Are we okay?" Without fail the step has resulted in restoration. Never in my four decades of ministry has this practical teaching failed to achieve its goal. When Scripture is mixed with obedience, a healing elixir results.

He gives us more than we request by going deeper than we ask. He wants not only your whole heart; he wants your heart whole.

I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him for that day" (2 Timothy 1:12 NIV).

We want certainty, but the only certainty is the lack thereof. That's why the most stressed-out people are control freaks. They fail at the quest they most pursue. The more they try to control the world, the more they realize they cannot.