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“When you are flesh-driven, you cannot be spirit-led.”
― Tessa Afshar, Daughter of Rome

“We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.”
― Tessa Afshar, Pearl in the Sand

“But the choices that lead us into broken paths often have their beginnings in more convoluted places.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“I was like a child bitten by a viper. All I could think of was finding a way to remove the fangs sunken into my skin. I had no notion that I still had to contend with the venom pumping through my veins.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“This is a door that the Lord holds open for you. Walk through it. He who has called shall also equip. Everything you lack shall be provided.”
― Tessa Afshar, Harvest of Rubies

“Sometimes tears are a gift. They are the words our tongues cannot speak, the gall our bodies cannot expel.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“Faith is not won by arguments. Faith is won by an experience of love.”
― Tessa Afshars

“How can you be so accepting? How is it that you are not screaming with frustration?"
"I've been spending more time in prayer. I am learning that obedience to God means that you do not put your eyes on your longings, but instead, you simply place one foot ahead of the other into the space that the Lord opens. Tired, wounded, overwhelmed. It does not matter. You merely keep moving where God directs and stop focusing on what you wish you had. It's teaching me patience.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“Naomi enfolded Ruth in a warm embrace, before drawing back and patting her cheek. “If God spared us from the piercing shaft of every sorrow,” she said, “we could never fulfill His best plans for our lives. Sometimes the sweetest things in life rise up out of the worst things in life.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“How great an anguish is hope! For when it disappoints, it ruptures old wounds and gouges out new ones, so that you are left worse off than when you began.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“You must learn to trust him when there is no earthly evidence why you should.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“He had two stories to live. In the first, God had saved his eye. In the second, God had taken his eye. Both were true.... It was up to him which story he chose to live out every day. The lost eye or the saved eye. The blind man or the sighted one. The God who had abandoned him or the God who had saved him.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Hidden Prince

“He does not always keep us from danger, but he preserves us in danger. I have known hardship, but my heart has felt secure in his steadfast love.”
― Tessa Afshar, Bread of Angels

“He can give it through miracles if he so pleases, or he can use physicians as his instruments of grace. Either way, the power belongs to the Lord.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“God is mindful of your sufferings, Elianna. He knows every tear you shed. He has not abandoned you. You must try not to abandon him.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“With the ease of long familiarity, they slipped into the hallowed in-between place which is prayer, one foot firmly in the world, and another on a higher plane. The spoke to God, they walked with Yeshua (Jesus), they heard from the Spirit. They were filled, once more, with the wonder of the Father, who loved them and rejoiced over them.”
― Tessa Afshar, Daughter of Rome

“Your soul can prepare for the plans God has yet to unfold for your life.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“One’s own life is always more difficult to manage than the whole world put together.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“You want what you want, not what He is willing to give. It’s an awkward spot. In my experience, He usually wins. Try to remember, daughter, time does not work the same in the hands of the Lord as it would in ours. Sometimes, out of the delays of life, He calls forth a blessing.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“While he hung on the cross, caught in the agony of such a death, Jesus found the strength to speak a handful of words. Shall I tell you my favorite? He said, 'Father, forgive them, for they don't know what they are doing.' He said this about his tormenters and murderers. Roman and Jew. It did not matter to him. He spoke forgiveness over them, although they betrayed him and robbed him of life itself.”
― Tessa Afshar, Bread of Angels

“the secret to victory in this hard life. Strive valiantly. Dare to try, knowing that you will make mistakes. You will fall short again and again, because there is no effort without error. In the end, you will either know the triumph of high achievement, or if you fail, you will fail while daring greatly.”
― Tessa Afshar, Bread of Angels

“O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might. O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“Judge not your friend until you stand in”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps. PROVERBS 16:9,”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“Like Job I would learn that the Lord was a restorer of fortunes.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“Forgive me, Lord. Breach whatever wall I built in your way.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Queen's Cook

“Trouble itself can be transformed, you see, in the hands of God. Instead of a place of destruction, pain and heartache can lead to hope.”
― Tessa Afshar, Daughter of Rome

“sickness in the body, it is not always the case. Nor is lack of faith the only reason the sick are not healed.”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“Who can understand the mind of God? I know some Pharisees act as though they do. They say sickness is an indication of God’s displeasure. A sign pointing to the stricken man’s sin. A portent of faithlessness and unrepentance.” He shrugged. “It is not so much that these are not valid possibilities. But I think we underestimate God if we believe we can comprehend in full measure his every action. Although sometimes sin can cause”
― Tessa Afshar, Land of Silence

“I am older now and have learned many things. I have learned, for instance, that God allows us to hold on to our human defenses for only so long. At times, he himself calls them forth, permitting them to function for a season in order to guard us from harm. But a day will come when, in his eyes, they have served their purpose and must be removed.
The hour your soul grows attached to that defense-- the moment your heart clings to it too much for safety-- is the moment God rises in his mercy to destroy it.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Royal Artisan