Max Lucado Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

• I noticed people would read these short articles I was assigned to write for our church bulletin and they would say, Boy, thats good stuff. I got letters from people around the country saying, Thats really good. And I thought, Is it really?

  Max Lucado

  Country, Writing, Boys

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Yesterday, Worry

  FaceBook post by Max Lucado from Jan 29, 2010

• 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. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Exercise, Years

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Parent, Lord

  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.

• I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Years, June

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Kind, Backwards

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Stories

  Source: ww2.christianpost.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 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

• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Giving

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Two, People

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

• I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. Because as long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. I love what I do.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Long, Giving

  Source: sojo.net

• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Singing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Godly, People

  Source: www.crosswalk.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 don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Long, Giving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, People, Needs

  Source: www.crosswalk.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

• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Book, Writing, Pastor

  Source: smashinginterviews.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

• I think that I speak a lot like I write.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Thinking, Speak

  Source: www.preaching.com

• 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

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

  Max Lucado

  Mom, Dad, Writing

  Source: www.crosswalk.com

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