Max Lucado Quotes

There will always be bad times... It's the getting back up again that counts." - Gallen in "Intrigues

Weave me a rope from this dark despair, from this dull-eyed pain... Weave me a rope from this endless night, from this distant shore... Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

If you're still drawing breath, God's not done with you yet. Don't quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

Do not lose hope; St. Joseph also experienced moments of difficulty, but he never lost faith and was able to overcome them, in the certainty that God never abandons us.

That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

Don't murmur and rebel in your hour of adversity. Trust in God in every trial.

So use prosperity, that adversity may not abuse thee: if in the one, security admits no fears, in the other, despair will afford no hopes; he that in prosperity can foretell a danger can in adversity foresee deliverance.

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.