Max Lucado Quotes

When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.

The only true phenom...is me.

I am not in the roll of common men.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

I think there is a blossom about me of something more distinguished than the generality of mankind.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

Be the best at what you do or the only one doing it.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.

We are not just any nation.

There are men too superior to be seen except by a few, as there are notes too high for the scale of most ears.

They can say whatever they want to say, but it is going to be hard, my friend, to duplicate me.

No one is perfect, except for Penélope Cruz.

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

If you think you’re average, then you’ll be average. If you think you’re ordinary, then you’ll live ordinary. The truth is, there is nothing ordinary about you. You have something to offer that nobody else can offer.

You have to be different, great or first.

Don’t ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.