D. T. Max Quotes

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.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? 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.

The path marked Pride will lead you over a cliff.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

God has no cousins, only children.

God is not a miser with his grace. Your cup may be low in cash or clout, but it is overflowing with mercy.

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

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

Honesty and vulnerability endear us to people; they don't endanger us in our relationship.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

See your enemies, not as God's failures, but as God's projects.

The influence of the Church does not depend on the Church, it depends on the Holy Spirit. And the Holy Spirit will never lose its influence. He is God and He is influencing society.

I just love preaching.

I love everything about the Christmas season.

God wants you to know that he gets you.

There is no religion like Christianity, it is not one religion among others, it is completely different, its mixing apples and oranges.

I think I could do better in my approach to application. I think I could do better in preaching practical sermons.

Gratitude. More aware of what you have than what you don't. Recognizing the treasure in the simple - a child's hug, fertile soil, a golden sunset. Relishing in the comfort of the common.

In March 2011 I'm trying to decide on a sermon series that I will preach in January 2012. So, I'm about six months out.

So immediately I'm trying to think: What are some of these times when we feel we're losing our hold on Christ, and what's the fear we're trying to address? I try to get into that quickly.

1 out of 3 Americans says, "I hate my job." 80-plus percent say, "I'm ill-equipped and unenthused about my work."

It's God's job to run the world. Sometimes we accomplish more by doing less.

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25)

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

I didn't want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn't digest it.

There's no person God cannot reach.

I've never been surprised by God's judgment, but I'm still stunned by His grace.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

I guess grace doesn't have to [be] logical. If it did, it wouldn't be grace.

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

I think there is a time, if I can say this; there is a time in a message where you might just tell a story to give your audience a break.

All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same.

I think that I speak a lot like I write.

I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.

I'm first a pastor and then a writer.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

No acts are random or wasted.

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

Does God notice when I'm afraid? Note the resolve in the eyes of Jesus as he marches through the storm to rescue his friends.

Does God know if I am ignored or rejected? Find the answer in the compassionate eyes of Christ as he stands to defend the adulterous woman.

When you give a gift to one of God's children, you give a gift to God.

We are presumptuous not when we marvel at His grace, but when we reject it.

Your challenge is not your challenge. Your challenge is the way you think about your challenge. Your problem is not your problem; it is the way you look at it.

Jesus will press his thumb against the cheek of humanity and wipe away all tears.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

You can do something no one else can do in a fashion no one else can do it.

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

I struggle with trying to be a good pastor of a large church.

We might question God's actions, decisions, or declarations. But we can never, ever question his zany, stunning, unquenchable affection.