Quotes by Lysa TerKeurst

Lysa TerKeurst (b. 1969) — Bestsellerautorin, Rednerin und Leiterin von Proverbs 31 Ministries · evangelikal · USA

Lysa TerKeurst (* 1969) ist eine US-amerikanische evangelikale Bestsellerautorin, Referentin und langjährige Leiterin von Proverbs 31 Ministries. Bekannt wurde sie durch Andachten und Bücher, die praktische Lebenshilfe zu Themen wie Vergebung, emotionalem Schmerz und Beziehungsfragen bieten. Für Bibelleser bieten ihre Beiträge alltagsnahe Ermutigung, während theologische Kritiker an ihren Werken eine teils stark subjektive und psychologisierende Schriftauslegung bemängeln.

Era: Today

Recurring topics: Wisdom & Understanding, Meaning & Identity, Guilt & Forgiveness, Courage & Strength, Growth & Character, Relationships & Family, Suffering & the Question of God, Hope & Confidence

Quotes by Lysa TerKeurst

God's love isn't based on me. It's simply placed on me.

Lysa TerKeurst

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.

Lysa TerKeurst

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

Lysa TerKeurst

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

Lysa TerKeurst

Forgiveness is mandatory; reconciliation is optional.

Lysa TerKeurst

Bitterness isn't usually found most deeply in those whose hearts are hard but rather in those who are most tender. It's not that they are cold; it's that they've been made to feel unsafe.

Lysa TerKeurst

Sometimes to get your life back, you have to face the death of what you thought your life would look like.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

Hope is the melody of the future. Faith is dancing to that melody right now.

Lysa TerKeurst

Weak moments don't make weak faith. Weak moments make us even more aware of our need to press in to faith.

Lysa TerKeurst

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.

Lysa TerKeurst

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

Lysa TerKeurst

A woman who lives with the stress of an overwhelmed schedule will often ache with the sadness of an underwhelmed soul.

Lysa TerKeurst

Remember, the Devil loves to make us focus on the little that's wrong so we miss the big picture of all that's right.

Lysa TerKeurst

The Devil is vicious, but he's not victorious.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

On the other side of every hardship is a resurrection.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

The mind feasts on what it focuses on. What consumes my thinking will be the making or the breaking of my identity.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

It's impossible to hold up the banners of victim and victory at the same time.

Lysa TerKeurst

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good tomorrow.

Lysa TerKeurst

My attitude of love must not be sacrificed on the altar of activity.

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

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

Lysa TerKeurst

The tweaking of us by God in the quiet is the saving of us in public.

Lysa TerKeurst

Remember who you are. Don't compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

Not making a decision is actually a decision. It's the decision to stay the same.

Lysa TerKeurst

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation.

Lysa TerKeurst

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret.

Lysa TerKeurst

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