Lysa TerKeurst Quotes

Keep your eyes on the Master, because He knows things we do not know!

Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!

Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied

If you give your mess to the Messiah, He can turn it into a message.

Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

Compromise built upon compromise equals failure. Instead, resisting temptation allowed promise upon promise to be built up in my heart, and that creates empowerment.

Whether we're on the path toward victory or defeat is determined by the very next choice we make. Not the choices from yesterday. Not the choices five minutes ago.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

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

If I'm trusting myself, I will stare at all the possible ways I could fail. If I'm trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He'll use this whether I fail or succeed.

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

Never is a woman so fulfilled as when she chooses to underwhelm her schedule so she can let God overwhelm her soul.

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

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

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

I give grace because I so desperately need it.

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

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.

Our decisions aren’t just isolated choices. Our decisions point our lives in the directions we’re about to head. Show me a decision and I’ll show you a direction.

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

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

Humility opens the door of opportunity.

Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.

Faith is learned through life.

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.

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

God does not want to make us comfortable as much as He wants to make us comfort-able - to take the comfort that we receive and share it with others.

We are made for the same home and power that raised Christ from the dead.

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

We must determine to hear God's Words and put them into practice.

Jesus is the sanctuary every time we gather with other believers. We need that truth to soak into our hearts.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

God loves you just the way you are. But He loves you too much to leave you stuck in a state of defeat

I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.

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.

Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.

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

Nothing will give you emotional laryngitis like living in close proximity to someone who refuses to listen. Having emotions but no voice chokes the life out of relationships.

People in everyday life can sniff out the neediness of a performer trying to earn love.

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

Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.

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

Don’t we get into God’s Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through God's truth.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, I've been assigned a load I can handle.

Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?

Don't you just love it when you're disciplining your kids and God whispers, "This is good. I hope you're listening so you can apply this same truth to your life.