Here are the best quotes from Max Lucado, a preacher of the Oak Hills Church (Texas) and the writer of more than 50 books, with more than 80 million sold worldwide. His books include Saldrás de esta, Lighten your luggage, Face your giants, Anxious for nothing, Grace, among others.
You may also be interested in these phrases by Joyce Meyer.
1-To lead the orchestra, you have to turn your back on the crowd.
2-You change your life by changing your heart.
3-Can you imagine a life without fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?
4-The only mistake is not to risk committing one.
5-Find joy in the ordinary.
6-People look at the way we act rather than listen to what we say.
7-Faith is the firmness of the soul that brings boldness to dreams.
8-A little rain can change the stem of a flower. A little love can change a life.
9-At the beginning of each act of faith, there is often a seed of fear.
10-The best way to encourage yourself is to encourage someone else.
11-Power is 100 times more important than IQ.
12-Love, joy, peace, kindness, faith, goodness and self-control. To them I commit my day.
13-Do not let the obstacles of the race prevent you from enjoying the awards ceremony at the end.
14-Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
15-The people who make a difference are not those who have credentials, but those who care about it.
16-The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have something to say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.
17-Feed your fears and your faith will starve. Feed your faith and your fears will die.
18-The key is this: address today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You don't have the strength for tomorrow yet. You have enough for today.
19-The conflict is inevitable, but the combat is optional.
20-Everything changes when we open ourselves to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
21-It is not about winning or losing, but about love and respect.
22-Lower your expectations on earth. This is not heaven, don't expect it to be.
23-Worry divides the mind.
24-God is God. He knows what he does. When you can't shake his hand, trust his heart.
25-There is no way that our little minds understand the love of God. But that does not mean that he does not reach us.
26-The heart of a woman should be so hidden in God that a man would have to search God just to find her.
27-Be calm, God allows storms to later transform them into a blessing.
28-The more we focus up there, the more inspiration we have down here.
29-No one can pray and complain at the same time.
30-Forgive and give as if it were the last chance. Love as if there is no tomorrow, and if tomorrow comes, love again.
31-He loves each one of us as if there was only one to love.
32-Faith is not only the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do the right thing.
33-A nation is blessed when it has godly leaders.
34-Nothing encourages courage like the understanding of grace and nothing encourages fear like ignorance of mercy.
35-A few songs with him could change the way you sing. Forever.
36-Do not measure the size of the mountain, talk to the one who can move it.
37-Although we cannot see his purpose and his plan, the Lord of the heavens is on his throne and in firm control of the universe and our lives.
38-Forgiveness is opening a door to free someone and realize that you were the prisoner.
39-Remember, you are special because I made you. And I don't make mistakes.
40-We forget that "impossible" is one of God's favorite words.
41-Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia.
42-Gratitude raises our gaze, removes our eyes from the things that we lack so that we can see the blessings we have. Nothing kills the winter chill of the day like the breeze of gratitude.
43-Do not worry about having the correct words; worry about having the right heart. He does not seek eloquence, only honesty.
44-We have considered our suffering differently. "My pain shows the absence of God" would be replaced by: "My pain broadens the purpose of God."
45-You were not an accident. You were not mass produced. You are not a mass-assembled product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and positioned on earth by the master craftsman.
46-If God had a refrigerator, your face would be in it. If I had a wallet, your photo would be on it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.
47-God loves you as you are, but refuses to leave you as you are. He wants you to be like Jesus.
48-Although you can not see anything, he is acting.
49-Be a child again. Laugh Cookie Monster. Take a nap. Ask for forgiveness if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a kid again.
50-People can be difficult to love. Love them anyway.
51-Even if you do not understand how God works, you know He does.
52-Adam accused Eve. Cain killed his younger brother. Abraham lied about Sarah. Rebekah favored Jacob. Jacob tricked Esau and immediately spawned a gang of ruffians. The book of Genesis is full of family disasters.
53-There is an antidote to fear-confidence. If we trusted God more, we could be less afraid.
54-Philosophers can debate the meaning of life, but you need a man who can declare the meaning of life.
55-God is interested in restoration. The healing of the heart implies the healing of the past.
56-God's thoughts are not our thoughts, they are not even like ours. We are not even in the same neighborhood. We think: protect the body; he thinks: save the soul. We dream of a salary increase; he dreams of raising a dead man. We avoid pain and seek peace. God uses pain to bring peace. We decide: "I will live before I die." He commands us: "Die so that you can live." We love what is corrupted. He loves what endures. We rejoice in our achievements. He rejoices in our confessions. We show our kids the Nike star and say with a million dollar smile, "Be like Mike." God points us to the crucified carpenter with bloody lips and pierced side and says: "Be like Christ."