Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

And in that you will finally find the why. Why did this happen? Because there's someone else in the world who would drown in their own tears if not for seeing yours. And when you make one other human simply see they aren't alone, you make the world a better place.

You can't edit reality to try and force healing. You can't fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn't get to decide what you do with your memories. Your life can be a graceful combination of beautiful and painful.

The enemy wants us paralyzed and compromised by the whispers and doubts and what-ifs and opinions and accusations and misunderstandings and all the other hissing handcuffs crafted by fear.

I realized that neither Paul nor Barnabas were bad people. They were good people. But they weren't good together. And that's okay. 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.

When Jesus says, "Follow me," it's not an invitation to drag our divided heart alongside us as we attempt to follow hard after God.

I was made to be set free, holy, new, loved, and confident.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

The truth of my identity as a child of God empowers me to believe that living in victory tastes sweeter than any unhealthy delicacy.

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

Even if life handed me love, I suspiciously waited for it to be snatched away.

For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15–18)

There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us.

Enlightened literally means "to shed light upon.

What we see will violate what we know unless what we know dictates what we see. Bob

which also makes me feel powerless to change.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Often, what I expect tomorrow to bring will start to play out in my attitude. I think, in some weird way, that if I expect hurt and heartbreak and hardships, this protects me from getting caught off guard. But in reality, when I do this, my negativity pulls me away from trusting God, loving people, and enjoying what today offers. And it sometimes even becomes self-fulfilled prophecies as I trade the good of today for living in fear of tomorrow.

It is crucial to have a hope and a power beyond ourselves. We are made for the same hope and power that raised Christ from the dead.

If we aren't walking in wisdom, intimacy, and understanding with our Lord, we are walking in folly. And folly's ways lead to death.

Willpower alone is not enough to bring about this change; start by realizing that you cannot do this alone. If you are a person of faith, use that connection to help you change.