Max Lucado Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• The purpose of the Bible? Salvation. God's highest passion is to get His children home. His book, the Bible, describes His plan of salvation. The purpose of the Bible is to proclaim god's plan and passion to save His children.

  Max Lucado

  Children, Book, Passion

  Max Lucado (2006). “Life Lessons: Book of John”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

• What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Book, Air

  Max Lucado (2014). “One God, One Plan, One Life: A 365 Devotional”, p.171, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Engage with the Bible. Meditate on it day and night. Think and rethink about God's Word. Let it be your guide. Make it your go-to book for questions. Let it be the ultimate authority in your life.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Night, Thinking

  Source: ww2.christianpost.com

• A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Garden, Hands

  Max Lucado (2012). “A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

• My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Goal, Stories

  "Interview: Max Lucado on Storytelling, the Church, and Politics". Interview With Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. October 5, 2011.

• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• The book on my nightstand right now isnt anything that inspired me, but it entertained me. I read a book on Labor Day, it was a holiday, and I have three daughters, and we all went to the shopping mall and I sat on the bench and read a book while they shopped, it was called The Greatest Golfer there Ever Was, it was a great book, easy to read and entertaining.

  Max Lucado

  Daughter, Book, Holiday

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• I could easily go through all my books and mark the ones that were original, mark the ones that were adapted or pre-published that I've found. I'm guessing though that probably 75% of them are personal events. I just love a personal story.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Events, Stories

  Source: www.preaching.com

• It was a matter of going back through a lot of sermons and remembering the questions and conversations, where these ideas came from. So the book [Max on Life] is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Second Chance, Ideas

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I picked up this book called Blue Mountain, supposed to be a really good book on the Civil War.

  Max Lucado

  War, Book, Blue

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know that about our world - especially when it was written so long ago?"

  Max Lucado

  Book, Long Ago, Our World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• I think you could say every pastor is writing this book, Max on Life; for many it just never gets published. All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I just love those [saying of Christ ]: "Father forgive them, they know not what they do. I thirst. It is finished. Into Your hands I commit My spirit. Today you will be with Me in paradise." That was really the heart of the second book I wrote called No Wonder They Call Him Savior.

  Max Lucado

  Father, Book, Heart

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• 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

  Christian, Nice, Book

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Feelings, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The book, Max on Life, is really kind of a second chance to answer these questions.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Second Chance, Max

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• 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

  Christian, Jesus, Powerful

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• There's a great place for good Christian children's books. After the upcoming projects I'm working on, I'd like to turn my attention back to children's books. Maybe with a granddaughter I'll have more inspiration and new ideas.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Children, Book

  Source: ww2.christianpost.com

• I have learned that my assignment is to write books for people who do not like to read books. I really try to connect with people who are not given to spending a lot of time with an open book. Pay day to me is when somebody comes up to me and says, "I never read books but I read yours." I have a heart for that person.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I think what happens is that we're so busy as pastors that we never get around to trying to turn that material into a book. It's a shame because there is so much good material out there that needs to be published.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

• I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Classic, Christianity

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• Through the years, I have always enjoyed anything Chuck Swindoll has written. When I first got into writing Chuck's books really modeled a style of writing that I thought was accessible to people and yet still biblical. I wanted to do that.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Biblical

  "Max Lucado on 'Glory Days,' Being a Grandparent and His Favorite Book of the Bible (Interview)". Interview with Kelly Wilson Mize, www.christianpost.com. February 8, 2016.

• There are some people that say I need to be more academic in my teaching, I need to be more disciple developing focus, probably true. But where my heart is, is with people who are just passing through difficult time. I want to put literature in a form that is accessible for people who don't particularly read books.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Teaching, Heart

  Source: www.christianpost.com

• I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives and say, Am I really being called by God to do this? Or is this just something that would look neat in my funeral? I dont mean to be harsh but I think a person really needs to, so they wont be disappointed.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Mean

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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