Quotes about Identity
Heaven does not know you as the fellow with the nice suit or the woman with the big house or the kid with the new bike. Heaven knows your heart.
— Max Lucado
failures are not fatal. It's not that he loves what you did, but he loves who you are. You are his. The One who has the right to condemn you provided the way to acquit you. You make mistakes. God doesn't. And he made you.
— Max Lucado
He empowers us to be what he calls us to be.
— Max Lucado
You are loved by your maker not because you try to please him and succeed, or fail to please him and apologize, but because he wants to be your father.
— Max Lucado
You were deliberately planned, specially gifted, and lovingly placed on this earth by God. In a world that decides your worth by the clothes you wear or the sports you play, let me tell you something—you are valuable because God created you.
— Max Lucado
God never prefabs or mass-produces people. No slapdash shaping. "I make all things new," he declares (Rev. 21:5 NKJV). He didn't hand you your granddad's bag or your aunt's life; he personally and deliberately packed you. . .
— Max Lucado
If you aren't you, we don't get you.
— Max Lucado
Don't characterize loners as aloof or crowd seekers as arrogant. They may be living out their story.
— Max Lucado
Imagine that . . . unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God.
— Max Lucado
if you were adopted, your parents chose you. Surprise pregnancies happen. But surprise adoptions? Never heard of one. Your parents could have picked a different gender, color, or ancestry. But they selected you. They wanted you in their family.
— Max Lucado
make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that" (Gal. 6: 4 MSG).
— Max Lucado
Remember, you are a coheir with Christ. Every attribute of Jesus is at your disposal.
— Max Lucado