In the Field of Grace Quotes

“There is only one measure of true success, child. How close you remain by His side. Does the dust of His feet get on your cloak because you follow so close? Does the sound of His whisper reverberate in your ear because you have drawn so near? Are you obedient to that voice, day after day, hour after hour? That’s how I measure success. Do you understand?”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“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

“Chance is God's way of showing up without an announcement.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“They refused to make bitterness her new identity,”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“There is only one measure of true success, child. How close you remain by His side. Does the dust of His feet get on your cloak because you follow so close? Does the sound of His whisper reverberate in your ear because you have drawn so near? Are you obedient to that voice, day after day, hour after hour? That’s how I measure success.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“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.” During”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Jacob’s ladder could be touching the soil of this very road. Where you are walking, angels might be ascending and descending. The problem is that like Jacob, most of us spend our days not knowing. The Lord is never far. It is our blindness that makes Him seem so. The veil between heaven”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“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

“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

“I never thought the Lord could be so close. Close enough to be present in the midst of our troubles.” There was a catch in her voice.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Those who walk uprightly Enter into peace; They find rest as they lie in death. ISAIAH 57:2 D”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“If I seem faithful to you, it’s because I have no choice. I need the sheer goodness and power of the Lord to make it through every hour.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“You love the Lord. Moses taught us that we must love the Lord our God with all our heart and with all our soul and with all our strength. You love God like that. It’s rare in our day, when everyone does what is right in his own eyes, and many pay little heed to the commands of God. You are from Moab, and yet you follow the Living God with all your heart. What made you turn to Him?”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“She thought of Naomi. Of how wounded she was, and broken. It came to her that the Lord held Naomi with the same tenderness that Boaz held his lamb. With the same care, He caressed His child, bleeding and hurt from the sorrows of life. “What”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Will”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“He only knew that he survived that season by clinging to the Lord. His heart was crushed, but his faith grew.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“The Lord uses odd instruments to fulfill His will. The weaker the vessel, the better He likes it. It only proves His strength. I want you to understand. I wasn’t the hero in that story. God was.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“If we all received only what we deserved, this would be a bitter world.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“We travel through many wildernesses in life, be they real like Jacob’s Bethel, or wildernesses of the soul. Broken dreams, loss, grief. Sometimes there is nothing to comfort us but the hard stones of a lonely path. In those places, God seems so far away and distant. The way He does to Naomi right now. Yet, there is a ladder that touches down into the soil of our loneliest wilderness. The angels of the Lord ascend and descend upon it, and He is Himself watchful to give us aid.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“lay down and slept,
Yet I woke up in safety,
For the LORD was watching over me.
PSALM 3:5”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD,
Plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
JEREMIAH 29:”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“May he grant your heart’s desires
And make all your plans succeed.
PSALM 20:1–”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“times of trouble, may the LORD answer your cry.
May the name of the God of Jacob keep you safe from all harm.
May he send you help from his sanctuary
And strengthen you from Jerusalem”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“and more also if anything but death parts me from you, my dear mother.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“For where you go, I will go. Where you stay, I will stay. Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God. I have chosen Him and I have chosen you. To you both, I belong. “Where you die, I will die, and no one will return even my bones to Moab, for I belong to Israel now, and there I will be buried. May the Lord do so to me”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“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

“Even if my father and mother abandon me,
The LORD will hold me close.
PSALM 27:10”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Life belongs to the Lord. It is not for us to destroy.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“life often brings us more sorrow than we think we can bear. But God is greater than every desolation.”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace

“Those who walk uprightly
Enter into peace;
They find rest as they lie in death.
ISAIAH 57:2”
― Tessa Afshar, In the Field of Grace