Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

It's easy to live loved when I feel loved.

We are amazingly similar to the children of Israel. We spend half our lives looking back at our own Egypt with selective memories, longing to have our comfort zone back. Then we spend the other half wishing our days away for a dreamy future in our own promised land.

great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in each other. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match. A

You can't go on this grand adventure with God and keep your old way of thinking.

Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn't able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.

God is able to stand in my yesterday, today, and tomorrow, He knows things and sees things for which I need to be prepared.

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.

Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God's plan and stopped operating within the limitations of my own experiences. And I discovered a powerful truth along the way: When we take calculated risks, we discover God-given talents and facets of our personality waiting to be developed.

Relationships were reduced to attempts at managing what I feared about them rather than enjoying what I loved about them.

God never intended for us to rely on others for our sense of well- being. Only He is equipped to provide that. His perfectly stable, unshifting, unconditional love is the only real measure of my worthiness.

Here's where the certainty is: My imperfections will never override God's promises. God's promises are not dependent on my ability to always choose well, but rather on His ability to use well.

When we decrease, God has room to make big things happen.