God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.
MAX LUCADOGod has proven himself as a faithful father. Now it falls to us to be trusting children.
More Max Lucado Quotes
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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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God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.
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A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
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Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.
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God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
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Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.
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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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A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
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You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.
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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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The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.
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When grace moves in guilt moves out.
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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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Jesus humbled himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier. Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself.
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