D. T. Max Quotes

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.

Some people find the gift of salvation. For others the gifts are smaller: a kind word, a good deed. But all the gifts are from God.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

God crowns us. Most people crown their Christmas trees with either an angel or a star. God uses both.

Jesus said, "My Father is the gardener...He trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit".

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

I do not know when Christ is coming back. No one knows. But I do think the environment is getting more and more to the point where we can look for his return.

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

I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

Very, very rarely will I leave San Antonio to speak somewhere else. I used to do that, and it just about wore me out, so I quit traveling.

To be active in a church social life or church activities or even a church mission to help the hungry or reach the poor, but really our dedication has to be born out of an infatuation with Jesus.

Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.

If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.

Sentences are like just caught fish. Spunky today, stinky tomorrow.

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.

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.

I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

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

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

Compassion in evangelical churches is out of balance. When I talk about it, I get a lot of glazed expressions.

Gods given us all strengths and gifts.

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.

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

[There is] a great book from Ravi Zacharis, a scholar from India, and its called Jesus Among Other Gods. I havent read that one, but I know Ravi really well, and I know its a good book.

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

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened me up, hes got a little irreverency to him and I have a little too much reverancy.

Fredrick Buechner kind of loosened up my clerical collar, you might say.

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.

I have a great staff at the church; they protect me and allow me to focus on more of what I do best.

Being religious without knowing the cross is like owning a Mercedes with no motor. Pretty package, but where is your power?

I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.

I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.

How my relationship with my parents influenced my writing, really not at all. My dad was a mechanic, my mom a nurse.

My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

We refuse to believe that this present world is the sum total of human existence.

The wonders of nature call to you. The promises and prophecies of Scripture speak to you. God himself reaches out to you.

One of the things I discover a lot in marriage counseling is the husband or wife trying to get their spiritual thirst quenched by their partner; I think that's a real common mistake that we make.

God knows just the place where you'll be placed. He has a barren living room in desperate need of warmth and joy. A corner of the world needs some color. He selected you with that place in mind.

What you do for a tree, God does for you.

Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.

Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.

Unhappiness on earth cultivates a hunger for heaven. By gracing us with a deep dissatisfaction, God holds our attention.

Praise is the highest occupation of any being

You can endure change by pondering His permanence.

Nature is God's workshop. The sky is his resume. The universe is his calling card. You want to know who God is? See what he has done.