Tag: Pain

‘Humanity without humility makes true forgiveness impossible.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘Bitterness wears the disguises of other chaotic emotions that are harder to attribute to the original source of hurt.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘What makes faith fall apart isn’t doubt. It’s becoming too certain of the wrong things.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘It’s for the sake of your sanity that you draw necessary boundaries. It’s for the sake of stability that you stay consistent with those boundaries.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘I can’t always see what’s inside my heart, but I can listen to what spills out.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘The things marking us from yersterday are still part of the making of us today.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Forgiveness isn’t just about what’s in front of us. Sometimes, a bigger part of the journey is uncovering what is informing us from long ago.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘What we look for is what we will see. What we see determines our perspective. And our perspective becomes our reality.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘Forgiveness isn’t an act of my determination. Forgiveness is only made possible by my cooperation.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘The more our pain consumes us, the more it will control us.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Those who cooperate most fully with forgiveness are those who dance most freely in the beauty of redemption.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Unhealed hurt often becomes unleashed hurt spewed out on others.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘If healing hasn’t been worked out and forgiveness hasn’t been worked out, chaos is what will continue to play out.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Forgiveness is both a decision and a process.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘We can’t change what we have experienced, but we can choose how the experiences change us.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘The experiences I have affect the perceptions I form. The perceptions I form eventually become the beliefs I carry. The beliefs I carry determine what I see.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘We don’t serve a Do-Nothing God. He is always working.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Forgiveness releases our need for retaliation, not our need for boundaries.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘God’s silence is not proof of His absence.‘- Lysa Terkeurst

‘We see only what the human mind can imagine. God is building something we cannot even fathom.’- Lysa Terkeurst

‘Living in the comfort of peace is so much better than living in the constraints of unforgiveness.’– Lysa Terkeurst

‘Confession breaks the cycle of chaos inside of me. Forgiveness breaks the cycle of chaos between us.’- Lysa Terkeurst