Quotes from Francine Rivers

I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The goal is to have every character take on a life of his or her own. Sometimes characters will come into the story that I haven't planned.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

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.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you.

No, you won't. And I won't be enough for you, Amanda. I don't want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can't always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.

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

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.

The Lord will provide.

Though fallen low God raised her up

I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'why not?' 'because you'll just end up using it against me.

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

He stopped and glared at her. "It's a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It's not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear.

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

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.

I learned a long time ago we've control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn't belong to us. It's out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.