When you’re full of yourself, God can’t fill you. But when you empty yourself, God has a useful vessel.
MAX LUCADOYou are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.
More Max Lucado Quotes
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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
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Stay strong! Your test will become your test-imony, your mess will become your mess-age.
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The Bible is the story of two gardens. Eden and Gethsemane. In the first, Adam took a fall. In the second, Jesus took a stand.
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Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence he seeks, just honesty.
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Don’t measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.
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The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
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People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
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Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.
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Refusing to forgive is like ingesting a lethal dose of poison and hoping it kills my enemy.
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God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
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Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.
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Be patient. God is using today’s difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.
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God has enough grace to solve every dilemma you face, wipe every tear you cry, and answer every question you ask.
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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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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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Christ entered our world. As a result, we can enter His.
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God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
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A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
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Find joy in the ordinary.
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You may go days without thinking of God, but there’s never a moment when He’s not thinking of you.
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Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.
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Give your problems to Christ before your problems get to you.
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Next time a sunrise steals your breath or a meadow of flowers leave you speechless, remain that way. Say nothing, and listen as Heaven whispers, “Do you like it? I did it just for you.”
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God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
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If today were your last, would you do what you’re doing? Or would you love more, give more, forgive more?
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If you knew Jesus was coming tomorrow, what would you do today? Then do it!
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