103 Best Max Lucado Quotes From The American Author And Pastor

Anusuya Mukherjee
Dec 12, 2023 By Anusuya Mukherjee
Originally Published on Feb 11, 2021
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Max Lucado is an American pastor and author from Texas.

He's published a lot of books around the theme of faith and spirituality. We've compiled a list of the best Max Lucado quotes from his vast body of work.

If you'd like to read more quotes about faith, Then check out our collections of Thank You God and Leonard Ravenhill quotes.
 

Best Max Lucado Quotes

Here are the best Max Lucado quotes on love, faith, and happiness.

1. "Pray all the time. If necessary, use words."

- Max Lucado.

2. "Let's fix our eyes on Jesus. Perhaps in seeing Him, we will see what we can become!"

- Max Lucado.

3. "God doesn’t love us less if we fail or more if we succeed."

- Max Lucado.

4. "If a person has nothing but nature, then nature is enough to reveal something about God."

- Max Lucado.

5. "God's mercies are new every morning. Receive them."

- Max Lucado.

6. "His goal is not to get you what you want; it is to get you what you need."

- Max Lucado,'God's Inspirational Promises'.

7. "If we trust God more, we can fear less."

- Max Lucado.

8. "What you think of Jesus Christ will thoroughly color how you think about everything else."

- Max Lucado.

9. "Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God."

- Max Lucado.

10. "When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill."

- Max Lucado.

11. "He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future."

- Max Lucado.

12. "When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!"

- Max Lucado.

13. "No person should walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love."

- Max Lucado.

14. "The power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it."

- Max Lucado.

15. "Identity: smack-dab in the middle...Neither omnipotent nor impotent. Neither God's MVP nor God's mistake."

- Max Lucado.

16. "When grace moves in... guilt moves out."

- Max Lucado.

17. "God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace."

- Max Lucado.

18. "Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did."

- Max Lucado.

19. "The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers."

- Max Lucado.

20. "Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism."

- Max Lucado.

21. "God’s solution is a prayer away!"

- Max Lucado.

22. "Meet your fears with faith."

- Max Lucado.

23. "Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it."

- Max Lucado.

24. "If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace."

- Max Lucado.

25. "The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God."

- Max Lucado.

26. "Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional."

- Max Lucado.

27. "To the loved, a word of affection is a morsel; but to the love-starved, a word of affection can be a feast."

- Max Lucado.

28. "We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God."

- Max Lucado.

29. "Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith, and your fears will."

- Max Lucado.

30. "He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you!"

- Max Lucado.

31. "Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity."

- Max Lucado.

32. "Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"

- Max Lucado.

33. " The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit."

- Max Lucado, 'God's Inspirational Promises', Page 170.

34. "Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."

- Max Lucado.

Inspirational Max Lucado Quotes

Max Lucado is also a pastor.

Here are some inspirational quotes by Max Lucado.

35. "When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?"

- Max Lucado.

36. "I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God."

- Max Lucado.

37. "Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy."

- Max Lucado.

38. "You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer."

- Max Lucado.

39. "God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you."

- Max Lucado, 'God's Inspirational Promises', Page 170.

40. "The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up."

- Max Lucado.

41. "Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one."

- Max Lucado.

42. "A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons."

- Max Lucado.

43. "The more radical the change, the greater the joy. And it’s worth every effort, for this is the joy of God."

- Max Lucado.

44. "People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say."

- Max Lucado.

45. "Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath."

- Max Lucado.

46. "GRACE GRACE is the GIFT of God's Riches."

- Max Lucado.

47. "We forget that IMPOSSIBLE is one of God's favorite words."

- Max Lucado.

48. "What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass."

- Max Lucado.

49. "What I urge is that you learn to master your life by living each day in a day."

- Max Lucado.

50. "May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life."

- Max Lucado.

51. "How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time."

- Max Lucado.

52. "Death you die! Life you reign."

- Max Lucado.

53. "God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile."

- Max Lucado.

54. "It's not about winning or losing, but love and respect."

- Max Lucado.

55. "Those who successfully go through tough times do so because they keep insisting."

- Max Lucado.

56. "You change your life by changing your heart."

- Max Lucado.

57. "Focus on giants - you stumble. Focus on God - Giants tumble"

- Max Lucado.

58. "No one can do everything, but everyone can do something."

- Max Lucado.

59. "Fear visits everyone. But make your fear a visitor and not a resident."

- Max Lucado.

60. "Whether or not storms come, we can not choose. But where we stare during a storm, that we can."

- Max Lucado.

61. "If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!"

- Max Lucado.

62. "If today were your last, would you do what you're doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?"

- Max Lucado.

63. "Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers."

- Max Lucado.

64. "God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use."

- Max Lucado.

65. "Let your failures refine you, not define you."

- Max Lucado.

66. "Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day."

- Max Lucado, 'When God Whispers Your Name'.

67. "You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are."

- Max Lucado.

68. "Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess."

- Max Lucado.

69. "Bitterness is the trap that snares the hunter. And mercy is the choice that can set them all free."

- Max Lucado.

70. "Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go."

- Max Lucado.

71. "When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want?"

- Max Lucado.

72. "Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?"

- Max Lucado, 'Fearless: Imagine Your Life Without Fear'.

73. "You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take."

- Max lucado.

74. "The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny."

- Max Lucado, 'When God Whispers Your Name'.

75. "Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen."

- Max Lucado.

76. "The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today."

- Max Lucado.

77. "To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd."

- Max Lucado.

Max Lucado Christmas Quotes

Here are the best Christmas quotes from Max Lucado.

78. "Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination."

- Max Lucado.

79. "Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter his."

- Max Lucado.

80. "Christ came not for the strong, but for the weak."

- Max Lucado.

81. "Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out."

- Max Lucado.

82. "A few songs with Him might change the way you sing."

- Max Lucado.

83. "If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself."

- Max Lucado.

84. "Let God have you, and let God love you - and don’t be surprised if your heart begins to hear music you’ve never heard and your feet learn to dance as never before."

- Max Lucado.

85. "God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus."

- Max Lucado.

86. "Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does."

- Max Lucado, ' When God Whispers Your Name'.

87. "He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter."

- Max Lucado.

88. "Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts."

- Max Lucado.

89. "As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own."

- Max Lucado.

Max Lucado Wedding Quotes

Here are the best Max Lucado quotes on marriage and love.

90. "Love like there's no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again."

- Max Lucado.

91. "Marriage was conceived and born in the mind of God."

- Max Lucado.

92. "God created marriage. No government subcommittee envisioned it. No social organization developed it."

- Max Lucado.

93. "He follows me into the chapel like a criminal walking to the gallows. But all that changes when she appears. And the look on his face is my favorite scene in the wedding."

- Max Lucado.

94. "Have you ever noticed the way a groom looks at his bride during the wedding? I have."

- Max Lucado.

95. "Fear never saved a marriage or a business. Courage did that. Faith did that."

- Max Lucado.

96. "A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."

- Max Lucado.

97. "One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make."

- Max Lucado.

Max Lucado Birthday Quotes

Here are the best Max Lucado quotes for birthdays.

98. "You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you."

- Max Lucado.

99. "He loves each one of us like there is only one of us to love ."

- Max Lucado.

100. "Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes."

- Max Lucado.

101. "You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product.You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman."

- Max Lucado 'Let the Journey Begin: God's Roadmap for New Beginnings'.

102. "You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold."

- Max Lucado.

103. "If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need."

- Max Lucado.

Here at Kidadl, we have carefully created lots of interesting family-friendly quotes for everyone to enjoy! If you liked our suggestions for Max Lucado quotes then why not take a look at Faith in God quotes, or Trust God quotes.

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Written by Anusuya Mukherjee

Bachelor of Arts and Law specializing in Political Science and Intellectual Property Rights

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