No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren’t praying. When we pray, we aren’t worrying.
MAX LUCADONext 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.”
More Max Lucado Quotes
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You’re never without hope, because you’re never without prayer.
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Focus on giants – you stumble. Focus on God – Giants tumble.
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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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People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
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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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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.
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Don’t quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.
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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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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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Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
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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.
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God’s mercies are new every morning. Receive them.
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Worry is irrelevant. It alters nothing. When was the last time you solved a problem by worrying about it?
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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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Don’t measure the size of the mountain; talk to the One who can move it.
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