Max Lucado Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating.”

“We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.”

“God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed.”

“When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.”

“If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.”

“A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.”

“I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.”

“God will use whatever he wants to display his glory. Heavens and stars. History and nations. People and problems.”

“I don't believe our works save us, but I believe they follow us into heaven and bring glory to God.”

“For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.”