Top 450 Lysa TerKeurst Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Spending some time getting quiet can really be the best remedy for tangled situations. Taking a step back from all the emotion, frustration, and exhaustion to sit quietly with Jesus will do more to untangle a mess than anything else I’ve ever found.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

152. “It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

153. “God made us to consume food. He did not make food to consume us.”

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154. “Truth is the only healthy place from which to speak. Assumption is the birthplace of godless chatter.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

155. “But we can’t enable bad behavior in ourselves and others and call it love. We can’t tolerate destructive patterns and call it love. And we can’t pride ourselves on being loyal and longsuffering in our relationships when it’s really perpetuating violations of what God says love is.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

156. “Becoming more than a good Bible study girl means I separate my shortcomings from my identity and let Jesus be the only measure of my worth.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

157. “It is beautiful when the Master chisels. God doesn’t allow the unglued moments of our lives to happen so we’ll label ourselves and stay stuck. He allows the unglued moments to make us aware of the chiseling that needs to be done.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

159. “I’ve discovered that the more love and joy I pour into others, the more I experience in my own life.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

160. “It is easier to make excuses than changes.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

— Lysa TerKeurst

162. “Rejection – It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

163. “I can’t control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them. I can say to myself, “I have a choice to have destructive thoughts or constructive thoughts right now. I can wallow in what’s wrong and make things worse, or I can ask God for a better perspective to help me see good even when I don’t feel good.” Indeed, when we gain new perspectives, we can see new ways of thinking.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

164. “When feelings of inadequacy come creeping in, let’s park our minds in God’s truth.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

165. “Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what’s been said to me.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

166. “Saying “I’m fine” to keep the peace, when we’re really not fine, isn’t honest. It may seem godly in the moment, but it’s false godliness. Truth and godliness always walk hand in hand. The minute we divorce one from the other, we stray from soul integrity and give a foothold to the instability that inevitably leads to coming unglued.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

167. “Weak moments don’t make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

168. “Transformation helps us more clearly see Jesus. And when we more clearly see Him, we can more clearly see the miracle in our mess, the good in our difficulty, the redemption in rejection.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

169. “God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

170. “So, while there are still good things in this world, the world is no longer a perfect reflection of God’s goodness.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

171. “Refuse to wallow in the depressing angst condemnation brings. On the other hand, embrace any conviction you feel. Condemnation defeats us. Conviction unlocks the greatest potential for change.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

172. “Comfort zones don’t have to be comfortable – they’re just familiar. It’s where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

173. “I’m not who that guy says I am. I’m not who that girl says I am. I’m not who social media likes and comments say I am. I’m not who the grades, to-do lists, messes, and mess ups say I am. I’m not who the scale says I am or the sum total of what my flaws say I am. I’m going to stop flirting with the unstable things of this world so I can fall completely in love with You. I am loved. I am held. I am Yours. I am forever Yours.” The more intimacy like this that I have with God, the more secure my true identity is.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

174. “Obedience is the daily practice of trusting God.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

175. “Instead of wishing things would change, I’m asking God for His strength to make a change.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

176. “To deny my feelings any voice is to rob me of being human. But to let my feelings be the only voice will rob my soul of healing perspectives with which God wants to comfort me and carry me forward.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

177. “The enemy loves to take our rejection and twist it into a raw, irrational fear that God really doesn’t have a good plan for us.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

178. “Rejection steals the security of all we thought was beautiful and stable and leaves us scared and fragile and more vulnerable than ever.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

179. “When Adam and Eve chose to sin, their sin infected and infiltrated the goodness of all God had made. So, while there are still good things in this world, the world is no longer a perfect reflection of God’s goodness.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

180. “If you are a woman who honors God right where you are, you are in ministry.”

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181. “Getting filled with Him first so I could love and give and serve out of an overflow rather than relying on my own strength.”

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182. “If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we’d never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren’t ever shattered we’d never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

183. “My identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to me. Only then can I find a stability beyond what my feelings will ever allow. The closer I align my truth with His truth, the more closely I identify with God – and the more my identity really is in Him.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

184. “In God’s plan, you’ve got a part to play. If you know it and believe it, you’ll live it.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

185. “Believing God has purposed our days will save us from the trouble of stepping into plans that aren’t meant for us.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

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

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187. “I used my cravings for food as a prompting to pray. It was my way of tearing down the tower of impossibility before me and building something new. My tower of impossibility was food. Brick by brick, I imagined myself dismantling the food tower and using those same bricks to build a walkway of prayer, paving the way to victory.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

188. “Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

189. “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.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

190. “Praying helps me see perspectives otherwise beyond me.”

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191. “My ability to heal cannot depend on anyone’s choices but my own.”

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192. “Faith is learned through life.”

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193. “I love the thought that God is in our midst and that He will quiet me by His love.”

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194. “Don’t buy into what the scale says or doesn’t say. Trust the effort you are putting into getting healthy. And keep going! Not only are there changes going on in your body that you can’t see, there are changes going on in your spirit – with your discipline, your courage, and your willpower. Keep going!”

— Lysa TerKeurst

195. “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.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

196. “We have to put our hearts and our minds in places where wisdom gathers, not scatters.”

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197. “Relationships often die not because of conversations that were had but rather conversations that were needed but never had.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

198. “Replace the negative talk that will hinder you. Replace it with praises for God, who will deliver you.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

199. “God’s promises aren’t just for certain people at a certain low point. His hope extends into any and every size pit or pothole.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

200. “Comfort isn’t a solution to seek; rather, it’s a by-product we’ll reap when we stay close to the Lord.”

— Lysa TerKeurst