“I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?” Quote by Max Lucado
“I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.” PeopleWayWantTryingKindHelpingUsePainShapesEternityWant U Author:Max Lucado
“I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.” KnowsProblemPainAnswersKnow HowEternityDeep Pain Author:Max Lucado
“If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.” PeopleIfsHardHelpingPainTogetherLife IsPurposeDiesAnswersPerspectiveHigherEternalNobleThis LifeWorking TogetherPurpose Of Life Author:Max Lucado
“I spent the better part of a week trying to figure out how to organize these stacks of 30 years of conversations and dialogues. I finally began clustering them in these different categories, and I ended up with the ones you listed.It's interesting to me the kinds of questions I haven't been called to wrestle with. For example, I don't know what this says, but I'm not asked a lot of political questions.” KnowsTryingYearsKindDifferentPoliticalInterestingWeekHavensFiguresExampleConversationDialogueCategoriesOrganize Author:Max Lucado
“I don't get asked a lot of questions about science and the Bible, for example. Probably people just know I'm not very smart and I don't have an answer to those anyway.” PeopleKnowsAnswersExampleSmartVery Smart Author:Max Lucado
“I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.” PoliticalPositionCandidatesSenateBest PoliticalPolitical Candidates Author:Max Lucado
“From my perspective, most of my life has been dealing with the day-to-day, kitchen-to-bedroom-to-living-room-to-garage life with people. Most people are just trying to figure out how to love the people in their world, to love their God and to deal with some of these questions about God.” PeopleWorldTryingHas BeensRoomsDealsFiguresPerspectiveKitchenBedroomDay To DayLiving RoomGarageHow To Love Author:Max Lucado
“I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.” GivingBelievePurposeScripture Author:Max Lucado
“We have a place where we can take people when they come to us with questions so we're not just speaking out of our own opinion. We're really speaking to them out of an authoritative place, not because of what we discovered, but because of what God says.” PeopleOpinionSpeaking Out Author:Max Lucado
“It's one thing for me to tell people not to worry. It's another thing entirely to quote Matthew 6, where Jesus says, "Why do you worry? The birds of the air, the flowers of the field..." He says, "I tell you, do not worry."” PeopleJesusWorryOne ThingAirFieldsFlowerBirdMatthew Author:Max Lucado