Top 450 Lysa TerKeurst Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Your life may be dark today. But make no mistake, there is a powerful work happening. Jesus is in the process of turning your hurt into wisdom. And this wisdom will be life! Jesus is saying to us, “Nothing you desire compares to this wisdom. I will turn your pain to peace. I will turn your heartbreak into honor. And it will be worth it.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

202. “Forgiveness releases to the Lord your need for them to be punished or corrected, giving it to the only One who can do this with right measures of justice and mercy.”

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203. “We can’t live in an alternate reality and expect what’s right in front of us to get better.”

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204. “When a man is physically present but emotionally absent, a girl’s heart can feel quite hollow and helpless. This is true whether that man is her father, her husband, or even a man whom she deeply respects.”

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205. “You have the exact qualities God knew your kids would need in a mother. Each day, hold up your willingness and ask God to make you the best version of you that you can possibly be.”

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206. “Sometimes it’s the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.”

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207. “Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.”

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208. “Sip the shame so you won’t have to guzzle the regret.”

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209. “Live from the abundant place that you are loved, and you won’t find yourself begging others for scraps of love.”

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210. “We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.”

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211. “We aren’t supposed to strive for perfection everyday. If we were perfect, we’d have no need for Jesus. And it’s through our imperfections that we really feel the pull toward our need for a Savior. So the imperfections serve a wonderful purpose if we’ll let them.”

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212. “Find that courageous yes. Fight for that confident no.”

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213. “I’m an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That’s probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.”

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214. “In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I’ve become. The one I can’t make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.”

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215. “Jesus, I don’t want to be a secret keeper with my faith. I want to be a bold and gracious truth proclaimer. For You. With You. Because of You. Me, the unwanted girl whom You loved, redeemed and wanted.”

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216. “Some prisons don’t require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.”

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217. “While my heart wants to say yes, the reality of my time makes this a no.” I’ve learned the best “no” answers are graciously honest.”

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218. “Whenever you say yes to something, there is less of you for something else. Make sure your yes is worth the less.”

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219. “But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.” It’s a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we’ll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god – from anyone or anything apart from the one true God.”

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220. “Perfection intimidates. Compassion inspires. 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.”

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221. “Life doesn’t add up. People don’t add up. And in the rawest moments of honest hurting, God doesn’t add up. All of which makes us hold our trust ever so close to our chests until it becomes more tied to our fears than to our faith.”

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222. “If God is good and God is good to me, then I must fill in the gaps of all the unknowns of my life with a resounding statement of trust: God is good at being God.”

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223. “We can’t always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God.”

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224. “So the human heart was created in the context of the perfection of the garden of Eden. But we don’t live there now. This is why our instincts keep firing off the lie that perfection is possible. We have pictures of perfection etched into the very DNA of our souls.”

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225. “When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God’s design. And sin absolutely breaks God’s heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.”

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226. “If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.”

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227. “It’s not my perfect performance that captures God’s attention. It’s my complete dependence on Him that He notices.”

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228. “God made us capable of craving so we’d have an unquenchable desire for more of Him, and Him alone. Nothing changes until we make the choice to redirect our misguided cravings to the only one capable of satisfying them.”

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229. “People who care more about being right than ending right prove just how wrong they were all along.”

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230. “Just because we feel offended doesn’t mean we must be offended. Feelings are indicators not dictators.”

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231. “And we’d both agree this isn’t how it should be. This life between two gardens is confusing and complicated. Dust is messy. We don’t even like to touch dust, especially if it’s made up of the shattered pieces of our own hearts.”

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232. “God, I want Your truth to be the loudest voice in my life. Correct me. Comfort me. Come closer still. And I will trust. God, You are good at being God.”

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233. “What we need is boundaries, not barriers.”

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234. “On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection.”

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235. “What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?”

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236. “The emptiness in your heart because that person you love doesn’t seek to really understand you, rarely cheers you on, and doesn’t seem to want to connect intimately with you.”

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237. “People don’t mind doing CPR on a crisis victim, but no person is equipped to be the constant lifeline to another.”

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238. “If we let it, unglued will allow us to become humbly and beautifully broken before Him.”

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239. “When God becomes routine rather than revival, it’s time to switch things up.”

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240. “Making art provides uncomfortably accurate feedback about the gap that inevitably exists between what you intended to do, and what you did.”

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241. “We must determine to hear God’s Words and put them into practice.”

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242. “Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you. A new you. A stronger you. Strengthened not with the pride of perfection but with the sweet grace of one who knows an intimate closeness with her Lord.”

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243. “The Devil is vicious, but he’s not victorious.”

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244. “People aren’t thinking about us nearly as much as we might think they are.”

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245. “Whatever it is, if we are really going to stop circling the mountain and head north toward lasting changes, we have to empty ourselves of the lie that other people or things can ever fill our hearts to the full. Then we have to deliberately and intentionally fill up on God’s truths and stand secure in His love.”

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246. “Chase God’s heart today. Christianity has got to be more than a label, a lingo, and a lifestyle.”

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247. “My heart struggles to make peace between God’s ability to change hard things and His apparent decision not to change them for me.”

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248. “Yes, faith still moves mountains. But sometimes the greater act of faith is not praying for the mountain to move instantly but rather hanging in there while God helps you to move it bit by bit.”

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249. “Living loved is sourced in your quiet daily surrender to the One who made you.”

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250. “We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God’s promises in every area of our lives.”

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