Francine Rivers Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.

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

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

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart.

Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.

How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.

The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.

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