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God does not exist to make a big deal out of us. We exist to make a big deal out of him. It's not about you. It's not about me. It's all about him.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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San Angelo
Texas
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Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three- piece suit.
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I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.
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He promises a lamp unto our feet, not a crystal ball into the future.
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God is faithful even when his children are not.
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No place is too common. No person is too hardened. No distance is too far. There's no person God cannot reach. There's no limit to his love.
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My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.
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Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.
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CAN is 100 times more important than IQ
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Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
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God grants us an uncommon life to the degree we surrender our common one.
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Let your failures refine you, not define you.
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Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny.
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And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.
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I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.
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We preachers, people entrust us with their time week after week. I'm still stunned that people will let me talk to them for thirty minutes about anything I want to. It's a wonderful treasure that we are to steward.
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Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.
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God has a timeline. And because of Bethlehem, we have an idea where we stand on it.
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The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
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Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.
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Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.
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