There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Excellence
God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Risk-taking
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
Topics: Christmas
Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Regret, Letters
Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don’t.
—Max Lucado
Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him—and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Christmas
A friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes asked him why he had take up the study of Greek at the age of ninety-four. Holmes replied, “Well, my good sir, it’s now or never.”
—Max Lucado
Topics: Aging
You change your life by changing your heart.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Change
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
Topics: Earth, Master
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
Topics: Faith
Conflict is inevitable, but combat is optional.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Peace, Conflict, Attitude
Changing directions in life is not tragic; losing passion in life is.
—Max Lucado
At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.
—Max Lucado
Topics: Faith
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- John C. Maxwell American Christian Professional Speaker
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- Charles Sheldon American Christian Minister
- Chuck Swindoll American Christian Pastor
- A. W. Tozer American Christian Pastor
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