Top 450 Lysa TerKeurst Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Keep your eyes on the Master, because He knows things we do not know!”

— Lysa TerKeurst

102. “Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn’t exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

103. “Humility opens the door of opportunity.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

104. “Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

105. “Feelings should be indicators, not dictators.”

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106. “Staying here, blaming them, and forever defining your life by what they did will only increase the pain. Worse, it will keep projecting out onto others. The more our pain consumes us, the more it will control us. And sadly, it’s those who least deserve to be hurt whom our unresolved pain will hurt the most.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

107. “To live is to love. To love is to risk pain. To risk pain is to live. It’s what it means to truly be human. As fragile as dust. The breaking of us. The making of us. The building up of our faith.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

108. “How dangerous it is when our souls are gasping for God but we’re too distracted flirting with the world to notice.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

109. “Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn’t a sign of bad things to come. It’s actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren’t on the horizon, I don’t think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

110. “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.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

111. “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.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

113. “Resisting God’s promises will make us forget God’s presence.”

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

115. “Jesus doesn’t participate in the rat race. He’s into the slower rhythms of life, like abiding, delighting, and dwelling – all words that require us to trust Him with our place and our pace. Words used to describe us being with Him.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

116. “I want my kids to head out the door full of peace, not the echoes of my frustrations.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

117. “My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

118. “Remember: The pain isn’t the enemy. Pain is the indicator that brokenness exists. Pain is the reminder that the real enemy is trying to take us out and bring us down by keeping us stuck in broken places. Pain is the gift that motivates us to fight with brave tenacity and fierce determination knowing there’s healing on the other side.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

119. “Moment by moment we have the choice to live in our own strength and risk failure or to reach across the gap and grab hold of God’s unwavering strength.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

120. “My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.”

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121. “Don’t get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.”

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122. “Don’t get so consumed by and focused on the mess – the feelings of rejection, hurt, and disillusionment – that you miss the miracle.”

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123. “I so desperately want my words to be indicative of how deeply and completely I love my people.”

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124. “If I’m trusting God, I will stare at all the possible ways He’ll use this whether I fail or succeed.”

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125. “My reactions testify to the kind of relationship I have with Jesus and the effect He has on my heart.”

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126. “If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us. And his favorite entry point of all is through our disappointments.”

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127. “My counselor says, “Adults inform, children explain.” I will state my boundaries with compassion and clarity. But I will not negotiate excuses or navigate exceptions with lengthy explanations that wear me down emotionally.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

128. “Don’t let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

129. “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.”

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

131. “If the enemy can isolate us, he can influence us.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

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133. “Satan has no power over us except what we allow. Moment by moment, decision by decision, step by step – will we operate in God’s all powerful Truth or allow Satan to entangle us in his lies?”

— Lysa TerKeurst

134. “A woman who is careful with her words is a gift to all who know her.”

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135. “Love isn’t what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.”

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136. “Moms, let’s pledge to build each other up instead of tearing each other down.”

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137. “Rejection isn’t just an emotion we feel. It’s a message that’s sent to the core of who we are, causing us to believe lies about ourselves, others, and God. We connect an event from today to something harsh someone once said. That person’s line becomes a label. The label becomes a lie. And the lie becomes a liability in how we think about ourselves and interact in every future relationship.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

138. “Everything I do and say tells a story of who I am serving. If I am acting out of anger and spite, I am serving the father of darkness and spreading his darkness. If I am honoring to the Lord with my actions, I am serving to further the name of Jesus and spreading His light.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

139. “The space between our expectations and our reality is a fertile field, and it’s the perfect place to grow a bumper crop of disappointment.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

140. “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.”

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141. “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.”

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142. “The problem with saying yes all the time is that it won’t make you Wonder Woman. It’ll make you a worn-out woman. And soon you’ll find the relationships you treasure most are constantly getting your ‘less’ instead of your ‘best’ because of your endless to-do list and overwhelming schedule.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

143. “Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

144. “Do not check in with the screaming demands of the world before you exchange whispers with God.”

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145. “We try so hard to hold onto our stuff. We call it our treasure and expect to feel joy. But in God’s economy if we want to gain, we must give up. For joy won’t ever be found in collecting treasures. Joy radiates in our life only when we share our treasures.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

146. “Today’s choices become tomorrow’s circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, “The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

147. “I can rest in the fact that God is in control.”

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148. “How it must break His heart when we walk around so desperate for a love He waits to give us each and every day.”

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149. “When the world beats you down, open up your Bible.”

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150. “The exhausting manipulation and control it takes to protect an identity based on circumstances will crush our hearts and hide the best of who we are behind a wall of insecurity.”

— Lysa TerKeurst