Unglued Quotes

“Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don’t be impressed with yourself. Don’t compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Labels start out as little threads of self dissatisfaction but ultimately weave together into a straightjacket of self-condemnation”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I’m an encourager at heart. I love to give words of encouragement and I love to receive words of encouragement. That’s probably why words of discouragement affect me so deeply.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Unrealistic expectations are things the other person isn’t able or willing to do for me. I have to let go of these.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“What we need is boundaries, not barriers.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Do not check in with the screaming demands of the world before you exchange whispers with God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Finally, I went to my husband. “Honey,” I said, feeling the entanglements of expectations loosening their grip on me, “I can’t do everything good wives seem to do. But I can do three things. So, tell me your top three things, and I will do those well.” After all, I could spend a whole marriage doing a hundred things halfway with a bitter attitude and an overwhelmed spirit. Or, I could do three things wholeheartedly with a smile on my face and love in my heart.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“God gave us emotions. Emotions allow us to feel as we experience life. Because we feel, we connect.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Feeling unglued is really all I’ve ever known. And I’m starting to wonder if maybe it’s all I’ll ever be.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I may not be gentle by nature, but I can be gentle by obedience. If — and only if— I equip myself with predetermined biblical procedures that I can rely on when I start to feel the great unglued coming on.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“After all, how a woman thinks is often how she lives.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Refuse to wallow in the depressing angst condemnation brings. On the other hand, embrace any conviction you feel. Condemnation defeats us. Conviction unlocks the greatest potential for change.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Am I trying to prove or improve?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice. (James 3:14 – 16)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“comparison steals celebration. And a life void of celebration is a life empty.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I can rest in the fact that God is in control.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“If things are ever going to get better, we have to acknowledge our underbellies that fuel our unglued reactions.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“My reactions testify to the kind of relationship I have with Jesus and the effect He has on my heart.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Boundaries are simply clearly stated parameters that provide a safe structure for communication and the health of a relationship.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I have to remember that giving honor reveals more about my character than the character of the other person.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control. I am not a freak-out woman.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I stuff because: I don’t feel safe enough to confront this person. I don’t have the energy or the time to get into a conflict right now. I don’t know how to address the issue. I don’t want to seem hypersensitive. I don’t want to get rejected. I don’t want to lose control. I don’t want to make things worse, so I convince myself I can just let it go.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I don’t know what to say or how to say it.” So I said nothing. Not a word. I stuffed it all down and started to build a barrier to hide behind. After the incident, I smiled when I saw her, but I held her at a distance. She knew something was wrong, but when she questioned me about it, I lied. “Everything’s fine,” I said. But everything wasn’t fine. Not at all.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (Romans 12:2)”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Some prisons don’t require bars to keep people locked inside.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“I can’t control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them. I can say to myself, “I have a choice to have destructive thoughts or constructive thoughts right now. I can wallow in what’s wrong and make things worse, or I can ask God for a better perspective to help me see good even when I don’t feel good.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“In God’s economy, people don’t stand on opposing sides of the conflict scale. People stand on one side and Satan stands on the other. When we dump hurt into one another’s lives, we aren’t leveling the conflict scale. We are just weighing down the people side of the scale and elevating the Satan side of the scale. Satan loves it when we do his work for him by dumping on each other.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Unglued: Making Wise Choices in the Midst of Raw Emotions

“Puedo enfrentar las cosas que están fuera de mi control y no actuar fuera de control.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Emociones fuertes---decisiones sabias: El arte de decidir lo mejor cuando sientes lo peor