Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in each other. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A

You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.

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

God is able to stand in my yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He knows things and sees things for which I need to be prepared.

Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well- being. Only He is equipped to provide that. His perfectly stable, unshifting, unconditional love is the only real measure of my worthiness.

Here's where the certainty is: My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

When we decrease, God has room to make big things happen.

We all desperately want something that we see the Lord giving to other women. We see Him blessing them in the very areas He's withholding from us. And while these other women may not be obnoxious like Peninnah in their reminders of their blessing and our lack, it's increasingly painful each time we see a reminder. We look at them, and we feel set aside.

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

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

Am I trying to prove or improve?

People with a realistic view see rejections as a natural part of life and adjust accordingly. It

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

Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours.

I only needed to bring my willingness to forgive, not the fullness of all my restored feelings.

When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.

Overindulgence is overindulgence. And limitless indulgence in food always has consequences—it compromises our health, dimmishes energy to pursue our calling, and affects the way we feel about ourselves

Refuse to wallow in the depressing angst condemnation brings. On the other hand, embrace any conviction you feel. Condemnation defeats us. Conviction unlocks the greatest potential for change.

The LORD makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. —PSALM 37:23–24

We hyper-focus on the lines of Scripture containing the miracles, and we miss the details of the mess.