Lysa TerKeurst Quotes

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

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Raw emotions - anger, frustration, bitterness, resentment - are the feelings we tend to hide from people we want to impress but spew on those we love the most.

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

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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.

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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.

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Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.

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Food can fill our stomachs but never our souls.
Posessions can fill our houses but never our hearts.
Sex can fill our nights but never our hunger for love.
Children can fill our days but never our identities.
Jesus wants us to know only He can fill us and truly satisfy us.

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I know deep hurt. But I also know deep hope. Sometimes God's power is shown as much in preventing things as it is in making them happen. We may never know why. But we can always know and trust the Who.

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Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

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Sometimes we miss the miraculous of all that we have been blessed with because we're so focused on the one thing we don't have. When this happens, we become disillusioned with all that we do have.

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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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No person, possession, profession, or position ever fills the cup of a wounded, empty heart. It's an emptiness only God can fill.

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I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

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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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We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.

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It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be empty enough and open enough to discover the holiness we were made for. When we are stuffed full of other things and never allow ourselves to be in a place of longing, we don't recognize the deeper spiritual battle going on.

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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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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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Too many people think that finding the reason God placed us here on earth will come in one assignment with a big title and complete job description. I believe that discovering our purpose will unfold slowly, like a seed planted deep in the ground.

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Just because something is hard doesn't mean it's impossible.

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Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

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God is using all of your experiences, both good and bad, to develop your character to match your calling.

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The decisions we make dictate the schedules we keep. The schedules we keep determine the lives we live. The lives we live determine how we spend our souls. So, this isn't just about finding time. This is about honoring God with the time we have.

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Wounds.
Broken places.
Possibility.
Change.
Steps toward holiness.
Imperfect progress.
The hurt in those who hurt me—their underbellies.
Grace.
Love.
Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before.
And to discover through all this seeing—being unglued isn't all that bad.

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When God becomes routine rather than revival, it's time to switch things up.

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