Quote

The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.

Max Lucado

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Max Lucado
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 11
Author
Theologian
Writer
San Angelo
Texas
Never
Holy
Influence
Lose
Loses
Church
Society
Influencing
Spirit
Depend
Doe
Depends

More quotes by Max Lucado

Image
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
Max Lucado
Image
I don't have a lot of time in the sermon anyway. The sermon is only 25 minutes, which to me is frighteningly short. So I feel as if I need to get into that pretty quickly and make it as practical and accessible as possible.
Max Lucado
Image
As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.
Max Lucado
Image
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
Max Lucado
Image
Though we may not be able to see His purpose or His plan, the Lord of heaven is on His throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.
Max Lucado
Image
Let your failures refine you, not define you.
Max Lucado
Image
Here's what you need to keep in mind. You no longer have yesterday. You do not yet have tomorrow. You have only today. This is the day the Lord has made. Live in it.
Max Lucado
Image
Prayer pushes us through life's slumps, propels us over the humps and pulls us out of the dumps. Prayer is the oomph we need to get the answers we seek.
Max Lucado
Image
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.
Max Lucado
Image
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
Max Lucado
Image
The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'
Max Lucado
Image
Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.
Max Lucado
Image
I have some friends whose sermons are extremely practical - so practical that I can put them right to use. I'm trying to learn how to do that better but I don't think my approach or style really has changed in these 30 years. Whether that's good or bad I don't know, but I don't think it has.
Max Lucado
Image
I think we pray, we make a clear-headed decision, and then we quit being so mean to each other. We've got to stop that.
Max Lucado
Image
It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins
Max Lucado
Image
You can climb too high for your own good. Linger too long at high altitudes and your hearing dulls and your eyesight dims.
Max Lucado
Image
Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.
Max Lucado
Image
What did Jesus come to do? God saves.
Max Lucado
Image
One of the greatest gifts we can give people is the hope that their death is nothing to fear - you know, not that it has no fear in it, but the promise of scripture is that God will lead us through the valley of the shadow of death.
Max Lucado
Image
The worship of safety emasculates greatness.
Max Lucado