Quotes from Lysa TerKeurst

But this journey is so much more than just that. It really is about learning to tell myself no and learning to make wiser choices

We need to keep a gauge on our hearts so we can process, clarify, and understand our lives and relationships more deeply.

Experiencing life change is not a matter of chance, it's a matter of choice, choosing God's ways instead of your own.

And what we think about can consume us if

We are children of God made to walk in truth with soul integrity.

packages of perfection; relationships come in packages of potential.

A heaviness settled in that I couldn't explain or pinpoint exactly. I'm not sure how to properly describe it, except to say on different days it crept up with varying personas that seemed to hold me together and rip me apart simultaneously. Cynicism dressed like a security guard, making me believe that if I hoped for less, it would protect me and prevent more pain. In reality, though, it was a thief in disguise, out to steal every bit of closeness between me and those I love.

seeking what's fair never cracked the world open to reveal the beautiful reality of a Jesus-loving woman.

Negative self-talk was a rejection from my past that I had allowed to settle into the core of who I am. I talked about myself in ways I would never let another person.

Because rejection is an abstract word that doesn't have an image attached to it, I

Do not check in with the screaming demands of the world before you exchange whispers with God

We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.