Lara Casey > Quotes

“Waiting on God can refine us and build our faith. Some of the best things in life come with patient waiting and a period of growth. Friend, this season of waiting might be your time of ripening.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“Over time the impossible standards we set for ourselves become the measuring stick for our worth. We start to believe that if we don’t measure up, we aren’t enough. We begin to feel worthless.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“Busy is the enemy of peace. Busy takes us away from our purpose. Busy is not truly productive in the big picture. Busy means life’s joys and surprises can’t find a way into our lives because we’re moving too fast to see and experience them. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to move so fast that I miss my life.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“She believed she couldn't, so God did.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Nurturing a plant takes a commitment to gradual, daily care. You can’t grow something by soaking it in a bucket of water all at once. In the same way, you can’t work hard on a goal, giving it your all for one day out of your life, and then forget about it come January 2. Commit to daily tending. Our lives will bloom through daily decisions and habits—daily tending, nurturing, and pruning—not just the giant leaps made once in a while.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“God doesn’t call us to comfort; He calls us to follow him.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Am I acting on faith or feelings?”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“Do one thing at a time. Do it well. Or just get it done. Done is better than perfect, and doing one thing well is better than doing a thousand mediocre things.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“It’s okay to grow slowly.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“your past and your mistakes—no matter how heavy or confusing or deep they run—do not define you. No matter what you have done or experienced, you can receive God’s grace. His forgiveness is bigger than your mistakes. His power is bigger than your past or your present.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“We make things happen when we make the choice to shift from denying of the unknown to starting.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“Leaps of faith mean giving something up for the sake of something better, letting something die in order for something new to be able to grow.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“People often ask me how I stay so motivated and energized. I could tell you I try to eat healthy foods and sleep well at night, but the real answer is grace.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“In fact, it’s in the imperfect—the dirt—where things grow. Not despite the mess and tension, but right smack in the middle of it.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Throughout the Bible, God chose ordinary and imperfect people—fishermen, shepherds, and farmers—to do astounding things. Even though we are ordinary, God can make the impossible possible when we humble ourselves and surrender our fears to Him. God does not need you to be a superhero in order to use you for His great purposes. He just needs your humble, willing heart.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“When we work heartily for the Lord, the mundane becomes meaningful, and the bigger tasks are given greater energy and focus.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“The enemy of taking action is the false belief in "someday." Do the good you know you ought to do-and start now. Do it knowing that you might not have as much time as you think. The alternative is to do nothing, and that does, well, nothing. Don't wait to live.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“When life feels undone and plans seem unclear, we say, God, I trust You. When we’re in the wait, we say, Your will be done. When we feel lost or alone, we say, God, You are in this place. When the world presses in on us, we say, Lord, You are mighty. And when we’re feeling weak and defeated, and tempted to offer words of ingratitude for the season we’re in, we say, God, You are good. All the time. You are good.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“You have a unique assignment here on this earth, and your pain, grief, and challenges might be the very things that open your heart to be able to live out that assignment. A seed doesn’t burst through the earth and decide to hop to another spot because it looks better, easier, or more comfortable in someone else’s garden. It grows right in the dirt where it has been planted.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“I wanted to feel alive. I wanted to be on the right path, but I couldn’t get the self-defeating thoughts to stop. Then I read these words: “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Cor. 5:17). I so badly wanted to be made completely new. Little by little over the next decade, God helped me replace the lies I had believed with truths.”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“What if ending the chase and living on purpose means intentionally leaning in to what might feel imperfect?”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.

“The seasons teach us how to do life well, revealing a life-giving rhythm: we flourish through intentional periods of stillness, growth, hard work, and rest.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Making a mess doesn’t mean you become one.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“You don’t have to make it all happen. You just have to take one step forward in faith and let Him do the rest. Where you can’t, God already has.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Let all that I am praise the LORD; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the LORD; may I never forget the good things he does for me. (Psalm 103:1–2 NLT)”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“When we let God’s grace lead us, instead of perfection, good things get cultivated, right where we are.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“Unrushing our lives is a risk, though, isn’t it? It means we may have to give up something—or a lot of things—in order to slow down. And often we don’t like the idea of slowing down, because it sounds unproductive. But we risk missing something far more valuable than our productivity in keeping at a hurried pace: life. Real life.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“I don’t want to live in the lies of lack—focusing so much on what I don’t have that I miss all that I do have.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“I don’t have to do it all. Done is better than perfect, and good enough is good.”
― Lara Casey, Cultivate: A Grace-Filled Guide to Growing an Intentional Life

“computer, I heard”
― Lara Casey, Make it Happen: Surrender Your Fear. Take the Leap. Live On Purpose.