Quotes about Truth
But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. (James 3:14 — 16)
— Lysa TerKeurst
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
Old patterns of thought must be torn out, and a new way of looking at the core of who I am using God's truth has to be put into place. My identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to me. Only then can I find a stability beyond what my feelings will ever allow. The closer I align my truth with His truth, the more closely I identify with God—and the more my identity really is in Him.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Yes, I am fully loved, fully accepted, and fully empowered to say no to my flesh. Speak that truth in the power He's given you. Believe that truth in the power He's given you. Live that truth in the power He's given you. That's how you tell your flesh no. That's how you live fully prepared in the fullness of God.
— Lysa TerKeurst
I couldn't keep my old broken beliefs, nail a little Jesus truth to the side, and expect stability. I knew I had to stop assessing God's goodness by how my life felt at any given time. Feelings are broken boards. Only truth is solid, unchanging, and stable through and through.
— Lysa TerKeurst
We can't look to our feelings to determine truth. We must look to truth to rein in our feelings.
— Lysa TerKeurst
My identity must be anchored to the truth of who God is and who He is to me.
— Lysa TerKeurst
It's not about you becoming anything. Your soul was made to simply be with Me. And the more you are with Me, the more you will stop fearing what the world might take from you. With Me you are free to be you. The real you. The you honesty called to at the very beginning of this journey. The you whose core is in alignment with My truth. The you who doesn't fear imperfections or rejections, because grace has covered those in the loveliest of ways." Overcoming
— Lysa TerKeurst
Feelings are broken boards. Only truth is solid, unchanging, and stable through and through.
— Lysa TerKeurst
If we are going to be true to ourselves, we'd better make sure we are being true to our most surrendered, healed, and healthy selves, the ones God made us to be.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Don't we get into God's Word so it can get into us? So that it can interrupt us, change us, satisfy us? How sad to simply settle for learning facts about the Bible when it was meant for so much more
— Lysa TerKeurst
But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention." It's a vivid picture and a strong warning, and the same response we'll get whenever we try to get our fulfillment from a false god—from anyone or anything apart from the one true God.
— Lysa TerKeurst