Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

when you and I roll around in thoughts that stink, it affects the atmosphere everywhere we go.

How I long never to diminish God by loving lesser things. Rather, I want to make much of God by diminishing lesser things. May I make less of me, less of this world, less of the temporary…so that I may be a vessel more full of God, more full of eternal perspectives, more full of His everlasting!

If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.

A person pursuing obedience is able to pause and touch those that He says need our time, in spite of busy schedules.

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

Through relationship with God, man is finally capable of doing that which he was incapable of doing on his own. That's what walking in the Spirit is all about.

Let your love for your friends, who are standing with you, and your love for the Lord, who wants you to honor Him in the way you treat your body, make you think it over.

Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour" (1 Peter 5:8).

Though I've been saved for a long time, I want to recapture the essence of this "no other" reality.

Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things. (PHILIPPIANS 4:8)

We must spend time with God, letting His truths become part of who we are and how we live.

Make no mistake: being lulled into a false sense of security is worse than going through the process of suffering.