Top 29 Tessa Afshar Quotes
#1. 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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#2. He was fucking sad. That's it. That's the point. He knows life is never going to get any different for him. That there's no fixing him. It's always going to be the same monotonous depressing bullshit. Boring, sad, boring, sad. He just wants it to be over.
Jasmine Warga
#3. 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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#4. Human wisdom won't win us these battles. It will be God alone,
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#5. If my joy hung in the balance of having everything I wanted, I would always wrestle with unhappiness. There
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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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#10. That man makes me feel like I have my bonnet on backwards.
Nancy E. Turner
#11. I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace ...
Gerry Beckley
#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Who made the law that men should die in meadows?
Who spake the word that blood should splash in lanes?
Who gave it forth that gardens should be boneyards?
Who spread the hills with flesh, and blood, and brains?
Who made the law?
Leslie Coulson
Michael Tappenden
#16. Things that don't matter at all to one person can hurt another so deeply it seems as bad as dying.
Banana Yoshimoto
#17. I would rather obey the Lord without understanding than follow my own limited knowledge. "Perhaps
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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. 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.
Tessa Afshar
#23. Having Aelin help him the first time had been awkward enough that he couldn't even go until she started singing a bawdy tune at the top of her lungs and turned on the sink faucet, all the while helping him stand over the toilet.
Sarah J. Maas
#24. I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
#25. I'll just get better as I go along because I'm open to getting better. If you have the goods, there's nothing to be afraid of. If somebody doesn't have the goods, they're insecure. I don't have that problem
Jennifer Lopez
#26. In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
Saint Augustine
#27. Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is Life itself, it is an insane way to live.
John C. Parkin
#29. The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money ... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
Alan Watts
