You can endure change by pondering His permanence. — Max Lucado

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. — Max Lucado

A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever. — Max Lucado

Your requests change history because your prayers change God! — Max Lucado

We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non–sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes. — Max Lucado

What to change your life? Begin by saying, ‘The Lord is my shepherd. — Max Lucado

Live in such a way that you would not have to change your plans. — Max Lucado

I think we have such a crown jewel in the forgiveness of God, and it changes people’s lives. — Max Lucado

You change your life by changing your heart. — Max Lucado

If you’re looking for a place with no change, try a soda machine. — Max Lucado

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. — Max Lucado

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them. — Max Lucado

I wanted to talk about how grace in and of itself changes us. It changes the way we treat other people, the way we view our lives, the way we treat our purpose and our eternal identity. — Max Lucado

Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It’s not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life. — Max Lucado

God is kind, but he is not soft. He takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life change. — Max Lucado

God loves people just the way they are, but He loves them too much to leave them that way! — Max Lucado

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

God loves us too much to indulge our every whim. — Max Lucado

I love everything about the Christmas season. — Max Lucado

It’s not about winning or losing, but love and respect. — Max Lucado

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

Seek beauty and miss love. But seek love and find both. — Max Lucado

There’s no limit to God’s love. — Max Lucado

Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours. — Max Lucado

There is no way our little minds can comprehend the love of God. But that didn’t keep him from coming. — Max Lucado

Ggrace is God’s best idea–it’s His decision to ravage people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly. — Max Lucado

Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. — Max Lucado

God’s love never ceases. Never… God doesn’t love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God’s love never ceases. — Max Lucado

Children spell love with four letters: T–I–M–E. — Max Lucado

I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. — Max Lucado

I guess grace doesn’t have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn’t be grace. — Max Lucado

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace. — Max Lucado

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it. — Max Lucado

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens. — Max Lucado

God has the final word on your life and His word is grace. — Max Lucado

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion. — Max Lucado

I want a real take–home quality to the sermon, so I built the whole sermon series around the word grace, those five letters. — Max Lucado

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace… & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy — Max Lucado

I’ve never been surprised by God’s judgment, but I’m still stunned by His grace. — Max Lucado

There is a difference between grace and mercy. Mercy is the decision of God not to punish us. But grace is the decision of God to save and bless us. — Max Lucado

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy. — Max Lucado

God’s blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith. — Max Lucado

God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace. — Max Lucado

To accept grace is to admit failure, a step we are hesitant to take. We opt to impress God with how good we are rather than confessing how great he is. — Max Lucado

There was a time I wanted to go into politics. And so all of a sudden, here I am, I guess. I’m in the thick of it. — Max Lucado

No one can pray and worry at the same time. — Max Lucado

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren’t praying. When we pray, we aren’t worrying. — Max Lucado

A couple of things have helped. One is that I dont travel any, that takes a lot of time from peoples schedules, if they travel, so I dont travel. — Max Lucado

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time. — Max Lucado

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word. — Max Lucado

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time. — Max Lucado

There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes–seize it, don’t miss it. — Max Lucado

Unmet expectations are tough when it’s your wife or your husband, but it’s really tough when it’s God. And yet, it can be a time of growth and a time of faith, a time of understanding who God is. — Max Lucado

When we’re in the middle of a difficult time, we have to speak against that lie that says, ‘God is not here.’ We have to draw near to God. — Max Lucado

God meets our needs one day at a time. — Max Lucado

Baptism is the initial step of a faithful heart. — Max Lucado

A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her. — Max Lucado

The heart of the human problem is the heart of the human. And God’s treatment is prescribed in John 3:16. — Max Lucado

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn’t have to fill our hearts. — Max Lucado

You may be transferred, enlisted, commissioned, reassigned, or hospitalized–but brand this on your heart–you can never go where God is not. — Max Lucado

How does God deal with your bitter heart? He reminds you that what you have is more important than what you don’t have. You still have your relationship with God. No one can take that. — Max Lucado

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart. — Max Lucado

God is recruiting for himself a people who will populate heaven. — Max Lucado

Because of Bethlehem, I have a friend in heaven. — Max Lucado

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t Heaven, so don’t expect it to be. — Max Lucado

On the eve of the cross, Jesus made his decision. He would rather go to hell for you than go to heaven without you. — Max Lucado

Don’t see yourself as a product of your parents DNA, but rather as a brand new idea from heaven. — Max Lucado

Heaven is God’s answer to any suffering you may face. — Max Lucado

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. — Max Lucado

You are God’s child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family. — Max Lucado

Aren’t you glad that God doesn’t give you only that which you remember to thank him for? — Max Lucado

God would rather give up His son..than give up on us — Max Lucado

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. — Max Lucado

Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you. — Max Lucado

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write. — Max Lucado

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use. — Max Lucado

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook. — Max Lucado

If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more? — Max Lucado

Who are they to give stars or dots? They’re Wemmicks just like you.’ Eli to Punchinello (p. 25) — Max Lucado

Forgive and give as if it were your last opportunity. Love like there’s no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again. — Max Lucado

When you give a gift to one of God’s children, you give a gift to God. — Max Lucado

As soon as you can, pay your debts. As long as you can, give the benefit of the doubt. As much as you can, give thanks. He’s already given us more than we deserve. — Max Lucado

God meets daily needs daily. Not weekly or annually. He will give you what you need when it is needed. — Max Lucado

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three–piece suit. — Max Lucado

If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek His grace. — Max Lucado

When God gives an assignment, he also gives the skill. Study your skills, then, to reveal your assignment. — Max Lucado

I try to be honest; I really do try not to exaggerate the story. I try to be accurate. — Max Lucado

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories. — Max Lucado

I think you have to be very careful about any story that puffs you up. — Max Lucado

I didn’t want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn’t digest it. — Max Lucado

I think there is something about a story that is enduring. Stories take on a life of their own. — Max Lucado

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent–a bit incognito–within a story, and people are more prone to receive it. — Max Lucado

I would guess that about 75% of my stories are like that–personal experiences that I probably over–milk. — Max Lucado

Every faith has its story; every faith has its roots. — Max Lucado

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it’s a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story. — Max Lucado

What I may intend for a story to communicate and what a story ends up communicating could be two different things. And it could be an even more positive thing. — Max Lucado

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn’t they matter most now? — Max Lucado

Of all the things you must earn in life, God’s unending affection is not one of them. You have it. — Max Lucado

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

Answer the big question of eternity, and the little questions of life fall into perspective. — Max Lucado

As we meditate on Christ’s life, we find strength for our own. — Max Lucado

God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one. — Max Lucado

Your serenity matters to heaven. God’s presence encapsulates your life. — Max Lucado

Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a Lord who can declare the meaning of life. — Max Lucado

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? — Max Lucado

Changing directions in life is not tragic. Losing passion in life is. — Max Lucado

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next. — Max Lucado

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats? — Max Lucado

The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions. — Max Lucado

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life. — Max Lucado

The life of Jesus Christ is a message of hope, a message of mercy, a message of life in a dark world. — 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. — Max Lucado