Made to Crave Quotes

“Compromise built upon compromise equals failure.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change — spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“I will give you the treasures of darkness, riches stored in secret places … In the most unlikely places I will bless your efforts and reward your perseverance with small indications of your victory.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Yes, I want to lose weight. 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 daily. And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Either we can be victimized and become victims, or we can be victimized and rise above it. Often it is easier to play the victim than take off our masks and ask for help. We get comfortable with our victim status. It becomes our identity and is hard to give up. The Israelites often played the victim card, and I love what God finally tells them, “You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north” (Deuteronomy 2:3 [NASB]). Turn north! It’s time to move on! Self-pity, fear, pride, and negativity paralyze us. Taking off our masks takes courage, but if we don’t do it, we will remain in our victim status and end up stunted.6”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“I’ve tasted the deep satisfaction of God and I know all other things are but cheap imitations. And I don’t want to be enamored by the lesser things wrought with momentary pleasure.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Overstuffing ourselves with food or drinking until we get drunk or getting wrapped up in the affections of an adulterous relationship are all desperate attempts to silence the cries of a hungry soul.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Whatever it is, if we are really going to stop circling the mountain and head north toward lasting changes, we have to empty ourselves of the lie that other people or things can ever fill our hearts to the full. Then we have to deliberately and intentionally fill up on God’s truths and stand secure in His love.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“It was about realizing the power of God taking over my complete weakness.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Life as a Christ follower will always be a learning process of depending less on our own strength and more on God’s power.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“With Jesus, if we want to gain, we must give up. If we want to be filled, we must deny ourselves. If we want to truly get close to God, we’ll have to distance ourselves from other things. If we want to conquer our cravings, we’ll have to redirect them to God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“What happens when you delete “com” from the word compromise? You’re left with a “promise.” We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God’s promises in every area of our lives.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“It is easier to make excuses than changes.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“A whole lifetime could be spent making excuses, giving in, feeling guilty, resolving to do better, mentally beating myself up for not sticking to my resolve, feeling like a failure, and then resigning myself to the fact that things can’t change.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“[Incomplete people] are complicated and sensitive and messy in their reactions”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“I’m not on a diet. I’m on a journey with Jesus to learn the fine art of self-discipline for the purpose of holiness.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“How many times have I claimed to be a woman of faith but rarely lived a life requiring faith?”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“That’s what the apostle Paul is talking about when he says, “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). We can literally say to a comment or a thought that presents itself to us, “Are you true? Are you beneficial? Are you necessary?” And if the answer is no, then we don’t open the door of our heart. We make the choice to walk away from the comment and all the negative thoughts it could harvest if we let it in.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“At some point, I came to the realization that everyone has hurts from the past. And everyone has the choice to either let those past hurts continue to haunt and damage them or to allow forgiveness to pave the way for us to be more compassionate toward others.”
― Anonymous, Made to Crave Bible Study Participant's Guide: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“It’s not the “how to” I’m missing. It’s the “want to” . . . really wanting to make changes and deciding that the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“What I want to remember from this session …”
― Anonymous, Made to Crave Bible Study Participant's Guide: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“Being ruled by anything other than God is something God takes quite seriously. And so should I. I don’t want to live as an enemy to the cross of Christ. In other words, I don’t want to live resistant to the power Christ’s death and resurrection provides for me just because I can’t walk away from my unhealthy cravings.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“And somehow becoming a woman of self-discipline honors God and helps me live the godly characteristic of self-control.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“I am made to rise up, do battle with my issues and, using the Lord’s strength in me, defeat them — spiritually, physically, and mentally — to the glory of God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“If the very downfall of humanity was caused when Eve surrendered to a temptation to eat something she wasn’t supposed to eat, I do think our struggles with food are important to God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“We feel overweight physically but underweight spiritually.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“God made us capable of craving so that we’d have an unquenchable desire for more of Him, and Him alone. Nothing changes until we make the choice to redirect our misguided cravings to the only One capable of satisfying them.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

“God seems far away and French fries are right around the corner at the drive-thru.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food

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― Zondervan Publishing, Made to Crave Bible Study Participant's Guide: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food