Francine Rivers Quotes

I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.

Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.

God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

And if it (life) were easier, would i have given my heart so fully to God? Put your hope in Him, and you won't be disappointed by what life offers

The Lord will provide.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until they forgot whom it was they were trying to please.

We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.

I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.

Anything less than your best dishonors God

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?

Love doesn't last." She didn't know how much showed her pale face. Meribah's face softened. "Sometimes it does. If it's the right kind.

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.

Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?

This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.

God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.

Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.

Hatred is the enemy, Hadassah. Not the people.

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

But so often, things of great beauty are full of great corruption.

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.

I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.

It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.

If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.