Quotes about Lysa TerKeurst

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

Jesus knew what being rejected felt like. Jesus knew. He knew the feelings. He knew the struggles. And in an earth-shattering moment, Jesus exposed the way of escape for us. He matched every feeling—the emptiness, the deprivation, and the rejection—with truths straight from God's Word. Lies flee in the presence of truth.

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

Giving with strings of secret expectations attached is the greatest invitation to heartbreak. That's not love. That's manipulation.

In fact our brains respond so similarly to rejection and physical pain that Tylenol reduces the emotional pain rejection elicits.

Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. (1 PETER 2:11)

we are to escape the natural bitterness of the human heart, we have to go through a long process as well . . . the process of being cured.

I struggle with decisions, too. I don't want to miss out on opportunities, mess up relationships by disappointing people, or misstep right out of God's will.

And yet what we call mundane is, in some very important ways, significant in God's school of preparation.