Top 450 Lysa TerKeurst Quotes (2024 Update)
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251. “Hoping doesn’t mean I put myself in harm’s way. It doesn’t mean I ignore reality. No, hoping means I acknowledge reality in the very same breath that I acknowledge God’s sovereignty.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

252. “You are my fortress. A fortress is a strong, high place. It’s the place You lift me so fear can no longer have access to me. Fear can’t catch what it can no longer reach. What a comfort this is. You lift me high like this when I lift my soul in worship of Your holy name.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

253. “Labels only stick if I let them.”

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254. “No amount of outside achievement fixes inside hurts.”

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255. “Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn’t able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.”

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256. “We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.”

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257. “Self-rejection paves the landing strip for the rejection of others to arrive and pull on up to the gates of our hearts. Think about why it hurts so much when other people say or do things that make you feel rejected. Isn’t it in part due to the fact they just voiced some vulnerability you’ve already berated yourself for? It hurts exponentially more when you’re kicked in an already bruised shin.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

258. “Knowledge is wisdom that comes from acquiring truth. Insight is wisdom that comes from living out the truth we acquire. Discernment is wisdom that comes from the Holy Spirit’s reminders of that knowledge and insight.”

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259. “I stuff because: I don’t feel safe enough to confront this person. I don’t have the energy or the time to get into a conflict right now. I don’t know how to address the issue. I don’t want to seem hypersensitive. I don’t want to get rejected. I don’t want to lose control. I don’t want to make things worse, so I convince myself I can just let it go.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

260. “Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That’s not love. That’s manipulation.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

261. “We must speak with honor in the midst of being dishonored. We must speak with peace in the midst of being threatened. We must speak of good things in the midst of a bad situation. We must be obedient to, trust, and believe God and let Him boss around our contrary feelings.”

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262. “In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work – brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

263. “We need to make sure our activities and our attitudes line up with what pleases God first and foremost. Wherever we focus our attention the most will become the driving force in our lives.”

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264. “Humility can’t be bought at a bargain price. It’s the long working of grace upon grace within the hurts of our hearts.”

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265. “Truth proclaimed and lived out is a fiercely accurate weapon against evil.”

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266. “Don’t allow the unrealistic demands of others to march freely into your life.”

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267. “God made us For Giving. God made you For Giving. God made me For Giving.”

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268. “From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.”

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269. “To love God is to cooperate with His grace. And since I’m so very aware of my own need for grace, I must be willing to freely give it away. Each hole left from rejection must become an opportunity to create more and more space for grace in my heart.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

270. “No, it’s not wrong to need people. But some of our biggest disappointments in life are the result of expectations we have of others that they can’t ever possibly meet. That’s when the desire to connect becomes an unrealistic need. Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

271. “I want the flowers but not the work. Isn’t that the way it is with many things in life – we want the results but have no desire to put in the work required?”

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272. “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.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

273. “Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.”

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274. “The biblical way to be preserved is to be pressed. And being pressed can certainly feel like being crushed.”

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275. “God isn’t afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn’t pull back. He pulls you close. His love and grace covers your exposed grief. And step-by-step leads you to a new place of victory. A sweet place your soul is so glad to be in though you never would have chosen the hard path on your own.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

276. “I may not be gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. If – and only if – I equip myself with predetermined biblical procedures that I can rely on when I start to feel the great unglued coming on.”

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277. “No matter how saved, sanctified, mature, and free we are, there are misalignments embedded in our souls.”

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278. “We think we want comfort in the I-don’t-know times of life. But comfort isn’t a solution to seek; rather, it’s a by-product we’ll reap when we stay close to the Lord. What if the comfort and certainties we crave today are a deadly recipe for complacency that will draw our hearts further and further away from God?”

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279. “Maybe God’s goal wasn’t for me to raise a good rule-following child. Instead, His goal was for me to raise a God-following adult.”

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280. “In the quiet, unexpressed, unwrestled-through disappointments, Satan is handcrafting his most damning weapons against us and those we love. It’s his subtle seduction to get us alone with our thoughts so he can slip in whispers that will develop our disappointments into destructive choices.”

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281. “I know I must walk through God’s process before I see His fulfilled promise.”

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282. “Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

283. “We must respect ourselves enough to break the pattern of placing unrealistic expectations on others.”

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284. “My life certainly didn’t change overnight. I experienced a waiting period, a time of growth, development, and perseverance as God prepared me. Lessons on patience, trust, surrender, and learning to take hold all preceded my stepping out. But even in this seemingly unimportant time of pruning and trials, God was preparing me for the next step.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

285. “My body size is not tied to my happy. If my happy was missing when I was larger, it will still be missing when I get smaller.”

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286. “When my brain begs me to doubt God, as it most certainly does, I find relief for my unbelief by laying down my human assessments and assumptions; I turn from the Tree of Knowledge and fix my gaze on the Tree of Life.”

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

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

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289. “Am I trying to prove or improve?”

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290. “If we live rooted and established in His love, we don’t just have knowledge of His love in our minds, but it becomes a reality that anchors us.”

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

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292. “People do affect us. But the peace of our souls is tethered to all that God is.”

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293. “What were the unrealistic expectations I had, and how can I better manage these next time?”

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294. “Yes, I want to lose weight. But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices daily. And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

295. “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. Let’s state it.”

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296. “Since Satan’s goal is to separate us from the Lord, this is exactly where he wants us to stay. But the minute we turn to His Word is the minute the gap between us and God is closed. He is always near. His Word is full and fully able to reach those deep places inside us desperate for truth.”

— Lysa TerKeurst

297. “I realized that most times it’s not the big things along my spiritual journey that tempt me to get off track. It’s a culmination of small daily aggravations I know God could fix but doesn’t. But what if instead of seeing these aggravations as inconveniences, I saw them as reminders to draw near to God?”

— Lysa TerKeurst

298. “God sees within me the ability to be the one He’s perfectly designed to raise up this strong little person.”

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299. “Satan knows what consumes us controls us. Therefore the more consumed we are with rejection, the more he can control our emotions, our thinking, and our actions.”

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300. “No person’s rejection can ever exempt me from God’s love for me. Period. No question mark. The most beautiful love story ever written is the one you were made to live with God.”

— Lysa TerKeurst