Quotes by Lysa TerKeurst

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

Some prisons dont require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

...there are natural consequences for not taking care of our bodies.

Victory is possible, sisters, not by figuring out how to make this an easy process, but by choosing - over and over and over again - the absolute power available through Gods truth.

How a woman thinks is often how she lives.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

Im not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad and what she has is always a package deal of both. In other words, Ive been assigned a load I can handle.

Tackle issues not people. Am I trying to prove my point or improve the relationship?

Now Im not saying the act of going to church fixes everything. Just as simply looking at a restaurant menu wont give you nourishment. Weve got to engage with whats offered if its going to do us any good. But putting my heart in a place to receive truth certainly got me going in a different direction.

Where there is a lack of rest, there is an abundance of stress.

Dont you just love it when youre disciplining your kids and God whispers, This is good. I hope youre listening so you can apply this same truth to your life.

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.

Write there. In the weak spot of impossibility.