Max Lucado Thinking Of You Quotes & Sayings

That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed. — Marvin Olasky

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em. — Sarah Orne Jewett

My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors. — Max Lucado

I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin. — Max Lucado

Nobody is so heartily despised as a pusillanimous, lazy, good-for-nothing, land-lubber; a sailor has no bowels of compassion for him. — Herman Melville

I'd like to think I'm going upriver in talking about world-view topics rather than particular political or controversial topics. — Max Lucado

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance. — Max Lucado

When we go to Congress, there are strict rules about what I can be involved with and what I can't be involved with when it comes to business relationships and business operations. — Tom Reed

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. — Natalie Portman

it would hold among its molecules the vibrations of all the conversations ever held in its presence. All the exchanges, the petty irritations, the deadly revelations, the flat announcements of disaster, the grunts and poetry of love. Sit — Thomas Harris

Don't get sucked into short-term thinking. Your struggles will not last forever, but you will. — Max Lucado

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character. — Max Lucado

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it. You can't always control your circumstances, but you can control the way you process them. — Max Lucado

One of the secrets in life is that we really lead a better life when we're living for others than we do when we're living for ourselves, and I think that's the way for our creator intended for it to be, is that if we can live for other people, we really leave this world in a different way. — Max Lucado

The mind that is full of God is empty of anxiety. Are you troubled, restless, sleepless? Then think of God more! — Max Lucado

28People did not think it was important to have a true knowledge of God. So God left them and allowed them to have their own worthless thinking and to do things they should not do. 29They are filled with every kind of sin, evil, selfishness, and hatred. They are full of jealousy, murder, fighting, lying, and thinking the worst about each other. They gossip 30and say evil things about each other. They hate God. They are rude and conceited and brag about themselves. They invent ways of doing evil. They do not obey their parents. 31They are foolish, they do not keep their promises, and they show no kindness or mercy to others. 32They know God's law says that those who live like this should die. But they themselves not only continue to do these evil things, they applaud others who do them. — Max Lucado

I keep thinking of all the people who cast despairing eyes toward the dark heavens and cry "Why?" And I imagine him. I imagine him listening. I picture his eyes misting and a pierced hand brushing away a tear. And although he may offer no answer, although he may solve no dilemma, although the question may freeze painfully in midair, he who also was once alone, understands. — Max Lucado

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. — John Shelton Reed

My work may feature brown faces but it could be anybody's story. — Tracey Moffatt

All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think there are so many great sermons that never really get circulation. — Max Lucado

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique. — Aerin Lauder

There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul. — Neil Gaiman

It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end. — Max Lucado

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you. — Max Lucado

One is sad when one thinks about life - cynical when one -sees what people make of it. — Erich Maria Remarque

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics. — Max Lucado

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action. — Max Lucado

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends. — John Clare

It's so daunting to walk into a classroom or a school auditorium. It's like the world's weirdest blind date. I know all the students are thinking, 'Who is this tool standing up in front of us?' — Libba Bray

I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer. — Max Lucado

I believe you select a president who best represents what you think are the values that God wants us to have. — Max Lucado

Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it. — Joseph Joubert

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. — Max Lucado