Tessa Afshar Quotes

#1. I want to grow old with you. I want your face to be the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. I want to feel my children growing inside you. Sarah, my love. I want to worship the Lord with you, and hear your laughter until the day I die.

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#2. Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.

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#3. Then it dawned on Joshua that God was not on Israel's side. He beckoned Israel to be on His side. Joshua couldn't claim God for himself or for his own interests the way the people around them used their idols. Rather the Lord claimed Joshua and His chosen people for Himself.

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#4. It's time to leave fear behind or you'll be robbed of your destiny. You don't need confidence in yourselves or in your own power. Be strong in the Lord. When disaster seems close, don't be discouraged. God will never leave you.

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#5. If you go through life making every decision based on what is
safest, you will look back one day and discover that you have missed out on the best. Allowing fear to run your life will only rob you of your future.

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#6. I would rather obey the Lord without understanding than follow my own limited knowledge. "Perhaps

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#7. He wiped out Jericho, and He saved a harlot. What kind of God was this? He seemed at once impossibly holy and ridiculously merciful. How could you tie those two incongruities together? Rahab

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#8. 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.

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#9. I think you have forgotten, my young friend, that the blood of the spotless lambs on Passover cover your own sins, too.

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#10. 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.

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#11. I try to remember that walking in the will of God might mean waiting as much as it might mean moving forward.

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#12. That was the day Rehab promised herself she would never bow her head to such gods. She hated them. For all their glittering attraction, she had seen them for what they were. They were consumers of humanity.

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#13. He pronounced them good not because of what they had accomplished, but because of who He had made them to be." I

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#14. If my joy hung in the balance of having everything I wanted, I would always wrestle with unhappiness. There

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#15. Human wisdom won't win us these battles. It will be God alone,

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#16. 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.

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