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

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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San Angelo
Texas
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Aging is God's idea. It's one of the ways he keeps us headed homeward.
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Relationships don't thrive because the guilty are punished but because the innocent are merciful.
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God did everything necessary to get Herod's attention. He sent messengers from the East and a message from the Torah. He sent wonders from the sky and words from Scripture. He sent the testimony of the heavens and the teaching of the prophets. But Herod refused to listen. He chose his puny dynasty over Christ. He died a miserable old man.
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All I know is that the stable is empty, and the horse is gone. The rest I don't know. Whether [in the future] it be a curse or a blessing, I can't say. All we can see is a fragment. Who can say what will come next [and what is good or bad in the long run]?
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When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.
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Your goal is not to know every detail of the future. Your goal is to hold the hand of the One who does and never, ever let go.
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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.
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The great promise of Scripture is that every day is a day that's worth rejoicing in.
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I really enjoy making people laugh I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that befriends you to them. It engages you with them and then you can come in they will remember that point.
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God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain surely He is mighty enough to light your path.
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Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people they don't endanger us in our relationship.
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The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers
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The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve don't seek to be seen
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There's no person God cannot reach.
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Does God understand you? Find the answer in Bethlehem.
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Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.
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Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.
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What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'
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When I was a young kid, my dad, a man of few words, told my brother and me, Boys, Christmas is about Jesus. I thought about what he said, and I began asking the Christmas questions. I've been asking them ever since. I love the answers I've found.
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Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.
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