Time & Perspective Quote by Max Lucado

Lucado builds a sermon out of a rom-com sentence structure: repetition, escalation, then a command. "There is a time..". lands like a metronome, steadying the reader before he starts nudging them toward the cliff edge. By the time he gets to "risky love" and "extravagant gestures", the faith vocabulary is doing double duty. Risk is no longer just emotional vulnerability; it echoes the Christian idea that real love costs something, that it exposes you, that it can make you look foolish in public and still be worth it.

The subtext is pastoral triage. He's talking to the chronically cautious: people who defer tenderness until conditions are perfect, until they feel safer, until they can guarantee the outcome. The phrase "pour out your affections" borrows the cadence of biblical "pouring out" language (of oil, of the Spirit, of oneself) and quietly reframes affection as an offering, not merely a mood. Love becomes an act of stewardship with a deadline.

Then comes the pivot: "And when the time comes - seize it, don't miss it". That dash is the sermon pause where the room goes silent. Lucado isn't romanticizing impulse so much as warning against regret. The context, culturally, fits a late-20th-century evangelical style that tries to translate spiritual urgency into everyday relationships: call your dad, apologize first, say the thing. Underneath the sweetness is a pointed theology of the moment: grace arrives in real time, and hesitation can be its own kind of unfaithfulness.