Max Lucado
We need hope. There's nothing worse than to live a life of despair. For a person to have no hope just sucks the blue out of every sky.Collection: Blue
When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.Collection: Desire
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.Collection: Wisdom
With God, every day matters, every person counts. And that includes you.Collection: Matter
You want to make a difference in your world? Live a holy life: Be faithful to your spouse. Be the one at the office who refuses to cheat. Be the neighbor who acts neighbors. Be the employee who does the work and doesn't complain. Pay your bills. Do your part and enjoy life. Don't speak one message and live another. People are watching the way we act more than they are listening to what we say.Collection: Differences
Sow seeds of hope and enjoy optimism. Sow seeds of doubt and expect insecurityCollection: Optimism
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.Collection: Motivational
Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.Collection: Inspirational
If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table.Collection: Mother
God loves you because He has chosen to do so.Collection: Love You
You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.Collection: Long
You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized - but brand this on your heart - you can never go where God is not.Collection: Heart
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.Collection: Prayer
Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.Collection: Love
If hurts were hairs, we'd all look like grizzlies.Collection: Hurt
The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.Collection: Life
Not everybody can create a foundation that's worth a billion dollars, but all of us can figure out those things we do. I really think God loves us too much to give us an assignment we don't enjoy doing.Collection: Thinking
The worship of safety emasculates greatness.Collection: Greatness
If you're feeling pain, express that to the Lord. If you're feeling worried, express those worries. One passage that gives me comfort is in Psalms, Chapter 11, verse 3, it reads, "When all that is good falls apart, what can good people do?" That's really the question of the day.Collection: Pain
It's always better to step down from the pedestal than to be pulled off of it.Collection: Pedestal
I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.Collection: Thinking
God has no cousins, only children.Collection: God
God's delight is received upon surrender, not awarded upon conquest.Collection: Delight
Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.Collection: Grace
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Christmas
Do you purchase the first tree you see? Of course not. You search for the right one. You walk the rows. You lift several up and set them down. You examine them from all angles until you decide, This one is perfect. You have a place in mind where the tree will sit. Not just any tree will do. God does the same.Collection: Perfect
If anybody understands God's order for his children, it's someone who has rescued an orphan from despair, for that is what God has done for us. God has adopted you. God sought you, found you, signed the papers and took you home.Collection: Inspirational
Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity.Collection: Opportunity
The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.Collection: Children
I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Collection: Pain
Don't see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven.Collection: Dna
The maker of the stars would rather die for you than live without you. And that is a fact. So if you need to brag, brag about that.Collection: Stars
Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is.Collection: Passion
There are many things in life over which you have no choice. But the greatest activity of life is well within your dominion. You can choose what you think about. You can be the air traffic controller of your mental airport. You occupy the control tower and can direct the mental traffic of your world. Thoughts circle above, coming and going. If one of them lands, it's because you gave it permission. If it leaves, it's because you directed it to do so. You can select your thought pattern.Collection: Thinking
Nails didn't hold God to a cross. Love did.Collection: Nails
You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.Collection: Jesus
Love the one who wears your ring. And cherish the children who share your name. Succeed at home first.Collection: Children
Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed?Collection: Inspirational
Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.Collection: Book
Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.Collection: God
Yesterday you can't alter, but your reaction to yesterday you can. The past you cannot change, but your response to your past you can.Collection: Past
The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.Collection: Suffering
No one can pray and worry at the same time.Collection: Prayer
In His Image."Collection: As A Finale To A Brilliant Performance
Because of Bethlehem, I have a friend in heaven.Collection: Heaven
The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.Collection: Faith
Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!Collection: Heaven
He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.Collection: Feet