Top 40 Tessa Afshar Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn your statutes. PSALM 119:.”

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2. “Come and buy that which will bring life to your soul. It costs no money to become whole. The famine of your heart can be satisfied the way an empty belly can be filled.”

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3. “O God, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might. O God, hear my prayer; give ear to the words of my mouth. PSALM 54:1.”

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4. “Faith is not won by arguments. Faith is won by an experience of love.”

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5. “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. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will.”

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6. “While he hung on the cross, caught in the agony of such a death, Jesus found the strength to speak a handful of words. Shall I tell you my favorite? He said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.’ He said this about his tormenters and murderers. Roman and Jew. It did not matter to him. He spoke forgiveness over them, although they betrayed him and robbed him of life itself.”

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7. “You must learn to trust him when there is no earthly evidence why you should.”

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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. “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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10. “Those who walk uprightly Enter into peace; They find rest as they lie in death. ISAIAH 57:2 D.”

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11. “But the choices that lead us into broken paths often have their beginnings in more convoluted places.”

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12. “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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13. “I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. PSALM 31:12.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Although things seem to be falling apart, even now, in the midst of our worst disarray, the Lord is working to make them fall together for our future good.”

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16. “Allowing fear to run your life will only rob you of your future.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “I am no teacher of the Law. But as I recall, one of our greatest prophets, Samuel, once said that to obey is better than sacrifice. Why do you not pray and ask him for his help? Instead of an offering, you can promise him your heart. Your obedience.”

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20. “Your soul can prepare for the plans God has yet to unfold for your life.”

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21. “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.”

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22. “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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23. “If my joy hung in the balance of having everything I wanted, I would always wrestle with unhappiness. There.”

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24. “Sometimes tears are a gift. They are the words our tongues cannot speak, the gall our bodies cannot expel.”

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25. “I would rather obey the Lord without understanding than follow my own limited knowledge. “Perhaps.”

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26. “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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27. “I could not push it away. Here was my healing; this man himself was the Balm of Gilead.”

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28. “Chance is God’s way of showing up without an announcement.”

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29. “He does not always keep us from danger, but he preserves us in danger. I have known hardship, but my heart has felt secure in his steadfast love.”

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30. “A whole nation’s character can be twisted by the actions of a few corrupt men.” I.”

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31. “Like Job I would learn that the Lord was a restorer of fortunes.”

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32. “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.”

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33. “Who can understand the mind of God? I know some Pharisees act as though they do. They say sickness is an indication of God’s displeasure. A sign pointing to the stricken man’s sin. A portent of faithlessness and unrepentance.” He shrugged. “It is not so much that these are not valid possibilities. But I think we underestimate God if we believe we can comprehend in full measure his every action. Although sometimes sin can cause.”

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34. “We promised to love him even if he withheld the desires of our hearts from us. “The Lord spoke a precious promise through the prophet Jeremiah,” Gamaliel said after concluding his prayers. “‘For I will satisfy the weary soul,’ he said, ‘and every languishing soul I will replenish.’ “You are weary, my children. You are languishing. I want you to understand that the Lord’s.”

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35. “How great an anguish is hope! For when it disappoints, it ruptures old wounds and gouges out new ones, so that you are left worse off than when you began.”

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36. “Grace means allowing room for someone to grow.”

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37. “Judge not your friend until you stand in.”

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38. “He can give it through miracles if he so pleases, or he can use physicians as his instruments of grace. Either way, the power belongs to the Lord.”

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39. “I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

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40. “One’s own life is always more difficult to manage than the whole world put together.”

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41. “Yeshua, when he walked among us, called himself the bridegroom. Like Adam, to win us, to have us, he too had to be put to the sleep of death. His side had to be pierced, his flesh had to be sacrificed. We who were dead in spirit, came to life out of his death, born from Christ as Eve was born from Adam. And we are now bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh.”

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42. “God is mindful of your sufferings, Elianna. He knows every tear you shed. He has not abandoned you. You must try not to abandon him.”

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43. “Nothing teaches gratitude like losing everything.”

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44. “He had two stories to live. In the first, God had saved his eye. In the second, God had taken his eye. Both were true... It was up to him which story he chose to live out every day. The lost eye or the saved eye. The blind man or the sighted one. The God who had abandoned him or the God who had saved him.”

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45. “Trouble itself can be transformed, you see, in the hands of God. Instead of a place of destruction, pain and heartache can lead to hope.”

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46. “We measure our past, and our future, by the Cross. Everything passes through that river of grace. It passes through Yeshua crying, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’ It passes through the crown of thorns, the welts of whips, the scars of nails. Our lives, our mistakes, our follies, our sins pass through him and are returned to us new.”

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47. “God was reminding me to endure. To trust in him in the midst of so much discouragement. Something in my soul bowed before that invitation. And I would bear the weight of the burden before me.”

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