Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marjane Satrapi

Evil is international and the fanatic is international and universal. There is no difference between a Muslim fanatic, a Christian fanatic, even a secular fanatic.

Marjane Satrapi

A Muslim fanatic and a Christian fanatic, a Jewish fanatic, a secular fanatic, an atheist fanatic, a communist fanatic - all of them are the same. The thinking that, 'If you don't think like me, that if you are not with me, then you are against me;' this is something to condemn.

Max Lucado

I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never - I would never have said anything if he didn't call himself a Christian. It'd be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled ... that here's a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady "bimbo" the next.

Max Lucado

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

Max Lucado

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.

Max Lucado

When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him.

Max Lucado

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

Max Lucado

Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."

Max Lucado

As we meditate on Christ's life, we find strength for our own.

Max Lucado

Christ became one of us to redeem all of us.

Max Lucado

In our faith we follow in someone's steps. In our faith we leave footprints to guide others. It's the principle of discipleship

Max Lucado

A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

Max Lucado

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Max Lucado

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

Max Lucado

Every other religion is a salvation by self, Christianity is a salvation by Christ.

Max Lucado

Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.

Max Lucado

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

Max Lucado

Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him-and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.

Max Lucado

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Max Lucado

We (Christians) are always in the presence of God. There is never a non-sacred moment! His presence never diminishes. Our awareness of His presence may falter, but the reality of His presence never changes.

Max Lucado

God gives us people to love and things to use, not things to love and people to use.

Max Lucado

He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

Max Lucado

It deeply concerns me that somebody who knows little or nothing about the Christian faith would hear Mr. Trump call himself a Christian and then make a decision based on the Christian faith, based on his behavior.

Max Lucado

I work in theology and Christian books all day long, when Im studying, so its just kind of nice to pick up something different. The books that have influenced me, theres not just one book that was a watershed, although Mere Christianity was as much as any.

Max Lucado

I think the current book [for Christian apologetics] is by Lee Strobel, its called A Case for Christ.

Max Lucado

What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.

Max Lucado

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

Max Lucado

What makes a Christian a Christian is not perfection but forgiveness.

Max Lucado

Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.

Max Lucado

We may speak about a place where there are no tears, no death, no fear, no night; but those are just the benefits of heaven. The beauty of heaven is seeing God.

Max Lucado

Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit.

May Sarton

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

Max Greenfield

I'm Jewish and my wife isn't so right now we're literally decorating a Christmas tree with Jewish stars draped around it.