The Peasant King Quotes

“Perhaps it is not so much how high your position or how great your influence," Jemmah said slowly. "Perhaps what matters is whether you are a perfect fit in God's plan. A lowly profession can hide an exalted ability.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“sometimes the terrible storms you expect don’t materialize.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“They had come to believe in God’s intervention in their lives, come to expect the miraculous when the ordinary simply proved insufficient.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“I am fighting for that. I want to take my place in the promise. A thousand years from now, no one will remember my name. I will be no great hero, immortalized by poets. But I will be one of a long line of men and women who stood on God's promises and contended for this faith. I don't want to run just because it's hard.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“He told me once that it required numberless miracles for each of God’s promises to be fulfilled. Numberless men and women walking in obedience in order for the intentions of God to be established on earth. One thing I have seen with my own eyes over the past few months is the sheer complexity of God’s plans on this earth. His majesty at work as he weaves a thousand different strands together. Each one of us was a tiny strand in his hands. Insignificant in ourselves. And yet he used the insignificant in order to bring about his glory.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“He told me once that it required numberless miracles for each of God’s promises to be fulfilled. Numberless men and women walking in obedience in order for the intentions of God to be established on earth. One thing I have seen with my own eyes over the past few months is the sheer complexity of God’s plans on this earth. His majesty at work as he weaves a thousand different strands together. Each one of us was a tiny strand in his hands. Insignificant in ourselves. And yet he used the insignificant”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“But its strength does not come from gentle treatment. You said the carpet’s resilience comes from the extra wool weft that is pounded into each row of knots. The weft and the pounding strengthen the foundation. “You can’t make an iron rug without a mallet, without some savage beating, all the way at the core of the carpet.” He made no answer. “Asher, as long as God is the one who controls the pounding, you are safe, because it is not the mallet that shapes you. It is the hand behind it. The mallet Astyages wielded against your life can be used by God for good. And I think it already has been. When I see you, I see strength. Resilience. I see a glorious bijar.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“It took an unprecedented storm to rescue me. A miraculous rainfall not seen in Anshan for over a hundred years.” She still felt awed at the thought. “A shepherd found me half-conscious in the field and carried me home. After some days, when my body had recovered from its ordeal, I began to understand the significance of that deluge. God had appeared absent in the rain. Instead, he had been with me through every hour, working toward a miracle. The whole time I accused him of faithlessness, he was busy raising me up so I could escape.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“Sometimes his answer is little by little. Like when his people were about to enter the Promised Land, longing to end their wanderings, longing to settle down and be at peace. But Moses told them that God would make a way for them little by little, that he might not provide the desire of their hearts at once. Our aching hearts always long for the at once answers of God. We want the pain gone all at once. We want to have relief, at once. Instead, God chooses a little by little answer.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King

“Perhaps it is not so much how high your position or how great your influence,” Jemmah said slowly. “Perhaps what matters is whether you are a perfect fit in God’s plan. A lowly profession can hide an exalted ability.”
― Tessa Afshar, The Peasant King