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I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

Max Lucado

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Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
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Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
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I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore? I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.
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Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.
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God is not troubled by one who is conservative or liberal, and He certainly never inclines His ear toward a donkey or an elephant.
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I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.
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You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.
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You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
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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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You are heaven's Halley's comet we have one shot at seeing you shine.
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God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.
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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.
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I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.
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To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
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A few songs with Him might change the way you sing. Forever.
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Anger is the noise of the soul the unseen irritant of the heart the relentless invader of silence.
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Live in such a way that you would not have to change your plans.
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I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.
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Jesus came to save us from our own sins.
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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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The strength of a story is that it stays with people and it gives an opportunity for that story to connect with people where the Holy Spirit intends for it to do so.
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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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