Max Lucado Quotes

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

Christmas begins what Easter celebrates. The child in the cradle became the king on the cross. And because he did, there are no marks on my record. Just grace. His offer has no fine print. He didn't tell me, "Clean up before you come in." He offered, "Come in, and I'll clean you up." It's not my grip on him that matters but his grip on me. And his grip is sure. So is his presence in my life.

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died.

If any has stumbled in his journey, there is a way back. The process is called repentance. Our Savior died to provide you and me that blessed gift. Though the path is difficult, the promise is real: 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow' (Isaiah 1:18).

No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, Because He did, I can forgive you.

Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

The cross is the lightning rod of grace that short-circuits God's wrath to Christ so that only the light of His love remains for believers.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

If you want to see what judgment looks like, go to the cross. If you want to see what love looks like, go to the cross.

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

It is not repentance per se that saves man. It is the blood of Jesus Christ that saves us.

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

The saving love of God is his doing whatever must be done, at great cost to himself, and for the least deserving, so that he might enthrall them with what will make them supremely happy forever, namely, himself.

After being so bad I could hear the angels singing.

Jesus made the final sacrifice for all, and we need not make it again.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.