Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

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

People can't fix from the outside a perspective that needs to be rewired on the inside. Only the Lord can do that.

And the gaping hole left behind is in some ways worse than death. If their absence was caused by death, you would grieve their loss. But when their absence is caused by rejection, you not only grieve their loss but you also have to wrestle through the fact that they wanted this.

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.

How I long never to diminish God by loving lesser things. Rather, I want to make much of God by diminishing lesser things. May I make less of me, less of this world, less of the temporary…so that I may be a vessel more full of God, more full of eternal perspectives, more full of His everlasting!

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

Puedo enfrentar las cosas que están fuera de mi control y no actuar fuera de control.

A person pursuing obedience is able to pause and touch those that He says need our time, in spite of busy schedules.

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.

Through relationship with God, man is finally capable of doing that which he was incapable of doing on his own. That's what walking in the Spirit is all about.

Let your love for your friends, who are standing with you, and your love for the Lord, who wants you to honor Him in the way you treat your body, make you think it over.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

Though I've been saved for a long time, I want to recapture the essence of this "no other" reality.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. (PHILIPPIANS 4:8)

We must spend time with God, letting His truths become part of who we are and how we live.

Make no mistake: being lulled into a false sense of security is worse than going through the process of suffering.

I am God's girl. That's right, I am. I am going to humbly and quietly let God have His way in me. And when I do, God will lift up me and my frayed nerves from this situation and fill me with a much better reaction than what I can give you at the moment. Give me just a few minutes and then we'll talk calmly about this.

And let's be honest, if we weren't ever disappointed, we'd settle for the shallow pleasures of this world rather than addressing the spiritual desperation of our souls.

Remember all the work you've done to draw boundaries was not about controlling someone else's behavior. It's about paying attention ad being hones about how someone's poor behavior and lack of responsibility is possibly controlling you. And when people close to us are acting out of control, that's when we run the greater risk of lacking self-control. When a relationship shifts from being difficult to being destructive, it's the right time to consider a goodbye.

With each temptation, Jesus, without hesitation, quoted Scripture that refuted Satan's temptation. Truth is powerful. The more saturated we are with truth, the more powerful we'll be in resisting our temptations. And the more we'll naturally direct our cravings where they should be directed—to the Author of all truth.

And I know I can't continue to fully embrace God while rejecting His ways.

The real reason for grounding ourselves in the truth that we are made for more is "so that you may know him better." The more we operate in the truth of who we are and the reality that we were made for more, the closer to God we'll become.

The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

When we give relational access to us, it should never lead to "less safety, less sanity, or less strengthening for the individuals in the relationship.