Lysa TerKeurst Quotes

So, I'm not on a diet. I'm on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

As I make goals for this year ... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.

When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.

Don't allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.

Instead of looking at life with the hope of receiving love, I started expecting rejection.

Everything is permissible' - but not everything is beneficial (1 Corinthians 10:23).

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is.

Define your week by obedience, not by a number on the scale.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?

Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A decision.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it's an error not an end.

Many people know Christ as their Savior, but the woman who says yes to God longs to know Him as Lord.

God sees within me the ability to be the one He's perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.

I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.

Those who constantly try to impress others will quickly depress themselves.

Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

The decisions you make determine the schedule you keep. The schedule you keep determines the life you live. And how you live your life determines

If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.

God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.

I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.

We are made for more because we are children of God.

I want to learn how to be more thankful for what I am, than guilty for what I'm not.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

Look for Me. Long for Me. Experience unbroken companionship with Me.

Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode.

God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.

We won't develop new responses until we develop new thoughts. That's why renewing our minds with new thoughts is crucial.

God invites us today to live a great story with Him.

Wise women tuck Godly wisdom into the words they speak and even more into the words they choose not to speak.

One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

Humility opens the ears of opportunity.

I give grace because I so desperately need it.

How hard something is often depends on your vantage point.

Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation

How to overcome that seemingly impossible issue ... Pray more words about it than you speak.

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

The only way to diminish our regrets is by making decisions that lead to peace.

Each and every thing I say yes to sets the pace of my life.

Getting filled with Him first so I could love and give and serve out of an overflow rather than relying on my own strength.

Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.

If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.

I can rest in the fact that God is in control.

We are supposed to maximize God, which keeps our weaknesses in perspective.

Every great success story has elements of failure.

Which do I care more about - demanding my rights or displaying right choices?

Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

willpower. Keep going!

To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.

If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.

Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

Moms, let's pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.

Proximity and activity don't always equal connectivity.

When we know Christ, it should show in our overflow, regardless of our relative success or discouragement in the face of rejection.

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

Faith is learned through life.

The only true satisfaction we can seek is the satisfaction of being obedient to the Lord.

The only way our faith can strengthen is if we use it.

Seeking with all of your heart requires more than just the routine Christian good girl checklist.

True peacekeeping is about properly processing the emotions before they get stuffed and rot into something horribly toxic.

Feeling unglued is really all I've ever known. And I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's all I'll ever be.

So, while there are still good things in this world, the world is no longer a perfect reflection of God's goodness.

We are to think about, ponder, and park our minds on constructive thoughts, not destructive thoughts.

There is power in simply speaking the name Jesus.

Is it possible we love and rely on food more than we love and rely on God?

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

We are taught to remain in God's love so that we won't tie our happy to anything but God.

The truly thankful person is a truly peaceful person.

Whatever has you afraid, angry, intimidated or frustrated tonight - take it to our all-powerful and all-capable God. He has the answer.

It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

[Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions

But it is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

The more we fill ourselves from His life-giving love, the less we will be dictated by the grabby-ness of the flesh.

On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection.

Let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

The need to belong goes beyond the need for superficial social ties . . . it is a need for meaningful, profound bonding.

Proverbs 23:7 reminds us, "For as he thinks in his heart, so is he" (NLV). We

Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.

God is good to me, even when life doesn't feel good to me.

Weakness is hard, but it doesn't have to mean defeat. It's our opportunity to experience God's power firsthand.

if we allow our thoughts to stink, that smell will leak out of every bit of us - our words, our actions, and especially our reactions.

This wasn't really about the scale or what clothing size I was; it was about this battle that raged in my heart.

Numb souls are never growing souls.

Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.

Overlooked by everyone, but handpicked

We were made for victory. Sometimes we just have to find our way to that truth.