Max Lucado Quotes

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

Islam is about finding your own space.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The Intoxication of Life,' 'The Purpose of Life,' 'The Real Cause of Man's Distress,' 'The Journey to the Goal in Life,' and, one of my favorites, 'The Heart of Man.' They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Who is God? Who are we? What is our purpose? All these questions remain unanswered. I want to reach the genuine seeker of spiritual well-being. My goal is to satisfy the hunger and longing for those who are seeking the truth.

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.

Any time I found a new piece of knowledge or wisdom, I would thank Allah for it. Then Allah would bless me with more of it.

The strength people need to proceed along the path of human development can come only from the spiritual worlds.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don't think we ask enough: 'God what do you want to do with me?' Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

God had to teach me a lot of things.

We're in soul business here.

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

It is astonishing, how many difficulties clear up without any effort when the inner life gets straightened out. If half the time we spend trying to fix up outward things were spent in getting our hearts right, we would be delighted with the result. Strange as it may seem, harmony within our hearts depends mostly upon our getting into harmony with God.