Max Lucado Quotes

Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself.

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

I am rather inclined to silence.

And remembering how those very beliefs had repelled me and had seemed meaningless when professed by people whose lives conflicted with them, and how these same beliefs attracted me and seemed reasonable when I saw that people lived in accord with them, I understood why I had then rejected those beliefs and found them meaningless, yet now accepted them and found them full of meaning. I understood that I had erred, and why I erred. I had erred not so much because I thought incorrectly, as because I lived badly. I understood that it was not an error in my thought that had hid truth from me, as much as my life itself in the exceptional conditions of epicurean gratification of desires in which I passed it. I understood that my question as to what my life is, and the answer, an evil, was quite correct. The only mistake was that the answer referred only to my life; but I had referred it to life in general. I asked myself what my life is, and got the reply: An evil and an absurdity. And really my life—a life of indulgence of desires—was senseless and evil, and therefore the reply, “Life is evil and an absurdity,” referred only to my life, but not to human life in general.

If you do not go within, you without

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.

We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.

Why do you want to read others' books when there is the book of yourself?

I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it's scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

This was real. And it was me. I had lived that life, and I had died that death. I was staring at the very end of me.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Prufrock had measured out his life with measuring spoons; Dubin, in books resurrecting the lives of others.

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

When we're not defending and justifying, and we're being very still, our answers can and do shock us.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.

Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.

God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.