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1 " 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
2 " 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. "
3 " 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. "
4 " They refused to make bitterness her new identity, "
5 " 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. "
6 " 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. "
7 " 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 "
8 " 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 "
9 " Chance is God's way of showing up without an announcement. "
10 " Those who walk uprightly Enter into peace; They find rest as they lie in death. ISAIAH 57:2 D "
11 " Those who walk uprightlyEnter into peace;They find rest as they lie in death.ISAIAH 57:2 "
12 " Life belongs to the Lord. It is not for us to destroy. "
13 " Even if my father and mother abandon me,The LORD will hold me close.PSALM 27:10 "
14 " life often brings us more sorrow than we think we can bear. But God is greater than every desolation. "
15 " 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. "
16 " 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 "
17 " and more also if anything but death parts me from you, my dear mother. "
18 " 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 sanctuaryAnd strengthen you from Jerusalem "
19 " May he grant your heart’s desiresAnd make all your plans succeed.PSALM 20:1– "
20 " 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: "