Max Lucado Quotes

My service to humanity is my real opportunity to prove my genuine love for God and God alone.

God is love.

Dare to love and to be a real friend. The love you give and receive is a reality that will lead you closer and closer to God as well as those whom God has given you to love.

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

Love is the greatest thing that God can give us; for Himself is love: and it is the greatest thing we can give to God; for it will also give ourselves, and carry with it all that is ours. The apostle calls it the band of perfection; it is the old, and it is the new, and it is the great commandment, and it is all the commandments; for it is the fulfilling of the Law.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.

The measure of all love is its giving. The measure of the love of God is the cross of Christ.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

Sacrifice is the essence of love, which is the essence of God.

If you can really make a man believe you love him, you have won him; and if I could only make people really believe that God loves them, what a rush we would see for the kingdom of God!

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Sometimes I think God loves the ones who most desperately ache and are most desperately lost - his or her wildest, most messed-up children - the way you'd ache and love a screwed-up rebel daughter in juvenile hall.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

I trust you: That's huge. That's truth. That's real love. Everyone uses 'I love you' so loosely.

Love is a big word. I believe in Love. I believe that God is Love.

Love never ends or fails. Love never ends. Everything must be based on love - the relation between two friends, my ministry, my service; the church services in every field must be based on love. Why? Because God is Love.

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.