Thief of Corinth Quotes

“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

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

“He knows the number of hairs on your head. He cares for the desires of your heart. Underneath the currents of your life, he stretches his everlasting arms. He has set his affections on you, though he knows your every weakness. The broken and the good in you. His love makes you whole. No man can give you this. Only God.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“In the end, God had not won the hearts of his people by reasoning with them. By explaining their wrongs. He had won those who were willing through . . . love. A love so deep it was willing to die.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“She was more human than ever she had been before suffering by his hand. God could use even this evil in the remaking of our hearts, it seemed.”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word,”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth

“And if one asks him, “What are these wounds on your back?” he will say, “The wounds I received in the house of my friends.” ZECHARIAH 13:6, ESV”
― Tessa Afshar, Thief of Corinth