Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.

Today, let's be determined to see blessings in the midst of things that seem like burdens.

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

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

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

God gave me emotions so I could experience life, not destroy it

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 how you spend your soul.

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

Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God's power.

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

Feelings are indicators, not dictators. They can indicate where your heart is in the moment, but that doesn't mean they have the right to dictate your behavior and boss you around. You are more than the sum total of your feelings and perfectly capable of that little gift . . . called self-control.

God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

Not reaching back for what was lost in my yesterdays. And not reaching for what I hope will be in my tomorrow. But living fully with what is right in front of me. And truly seeing the gift of this moment.

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me. And it's the place from which I should live . . . loved.

No, it's not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can't ever possibly meet.

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

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

There is something wonderfully sacred that happens when a girl chooses to realize that being set aside is actually God's call for her to be set apart.

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.