Max Lucado Quotes

Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

People who blame things rarely change things. Blame is an unassailable change-avoidance strategy.

We are fighting the greatest battle of all time with the most untrained army on earth. If strict discipline is necessary in art and athletics, how can we expect to be advanced Christians and stay in kindergarten?

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Just understanding that if you're not growing up, you're just moving backwards, and I'm a person that I always want to grow and learn and not be the smartest person in the room, because when you're not the smartest person in the room, you're always learning things.

I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.

In retrospect, I'm grateful for the break-up of my marriage because it forced me to deal with all the buried issues I probably wouldn't have otherwise faced. I'm a better, kinder, happier person today because of the spiritual and emotional growth I've experienced.

If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him.

Maybe we all change over time.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

Everyone should change; otherwise, you can't grow as a person in life.

The day you are content, you will stop growing.

If I was staying the same, then I wouldn't be evolving and changing and that would be boring and that would be unhealthy.