Quotes about Heart
My reactions testify to the kind of relationship I have with Jesus and the effect He has on my heart.
- Lysa TerKeurst
We just have to remember that where we pay attention matters more than we know. Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Bitterness, resentment, and anger have no place in a heart as beautiful as yours.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Our minds and hearts are like dry sponges. What we focus on is what will soak in and saturate us. If it is something foolish, we will make foolish decisions. If it is wise, we will make wise decisions.
- Lysa TerKeurst
And we don't allow their choices to harm us and start drawing our heart into places of compromise, devastation, or deception. Again, we all need grace when we mess up. But we also need the awareness that there is a difference between an occasional slip in behavior and an ongoing pattern of behavior.
- Lysa TerKeurst
We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the LORD's purpose that prevails (Proverbs 19:21). Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed (Proverbs 16:3). In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps (Proverbs 16:9).
- Lysa TerKeurst
God is much more concerned with the attitudes of our hearts than the actual activities of our bodies on the day of Sabbath.
- Lysa TerKeurst
growing closer to God has a whole lot less to do with any action we might take and a whole lot more to do with positioning our hearts toward His.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Breaking up the unplowed ground of your heart will make it ready for new life, new growth, new maturity in you.
- Lysa TerKeurst
If I can be honest, the real problem with the gap in my countertop was my own pride. It's a sign of imperfection, and I don't like my imperfections to show. Lord, please set my heart free from these prideful tendencies.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Self-rejection paves the landing strip for the rejection of others to arrive and pull on up to the gates of our hearts.
- Lysa TerKeurst