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I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
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Still
Never
Stunned
Surprised
Judgment
Grace

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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 I've been accused of having no unpublished thought.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.
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Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed over here, Father. I can’t budge it. And that tree of guilt near the fence? Its roots are long and deep. And may I show you some dry soil, too crusty for seed?” God’s seed grows better if the soil of the heart is cleared.
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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.
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Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.
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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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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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I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life] for many it just never gets published.
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I don't like hassles. But I love Christmas because it reminds us how God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God (Rom. 8:28 NLT).
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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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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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It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior.
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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.
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Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.
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Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.
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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.
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I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.
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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.
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My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
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I am very confident in preaching.
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In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.
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