Quotes from Francine Rivers

Go ahead! Her eyes shimmered with tears. Laugh! Pulling Kathryn to her feet, he cupped her face tenderly. We will laugh, darlin', right up until we're both old and gray and have a dozen grandchildren. He kissed her firmly. The answer is yes. I'll marry you. He grinned and kissed her again.

You are wonderfully made, Kathryn Beck.

I promise you, I am not going to crush your spirit, Kate. Why would I, when that's what I love most about you? He kissed her forehead as though she were a child.

Espera —gritó—. ¡Espera! Miguel la tomó de la mano. —Aquí estoy. —Sintió que temblaba y la tomó en sus brazos—. No voy a dejarte aquí en la oscuridad. —Le levantó el mentón y la besó suavemente—. ¿Cuándo entenderás que te amo?

What about the other wifely duties? Michael glanced back at her. -When it means something more to you than work, we'll consummate the marriage

You have no idea the power a good woman has over a man. You made me think about the faith I thought Id lost. He gave a low laugh. You got me back inside a church. And, if all that isn't enough.. He took her hand, kissed the palm, and pressed it flat against his bare chest. She could feel the hard pounding of his heart. Does that make you feel safer?

Books can be bought. A house can be rebuilt, darlin. You can't be replaced.

Rumors aren't worth the sand we walk on.

In a Christian marriage, Atretes, the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so you will be subject to Christ, and so also Rizpah will be subject to you in everything. Love her, just as Christ also loves you and gave himself up for you. Sacrificially, willing even to die for her. Love her as you love your own body. Sustain and protect her in all circumstances.

You follow your faith, as weak as it is, rather than your doubts, as strong as they seem to you right now. You do that and leave the rest up to God. He'll make sure everything goes according to plan.

He traced her face with one finger again. 'A woman is either a wall or a door, beloved.'' She gave a bleak laugh and looked at him. '' Then I guess i'm a door a thousand mean have walked through.'' ''No. You are a wall, a stone wall, four feet thick and a hundred feet high, I can't get over you all by myself, but I keep trying.

You are my God! Let nothing stand between You and me. Sin crouches at the entrance of my heart waiting to devour me. And I must fight against it. Oh, God, how I must fight against the fire in my blood!

Father said it is not God's will that any should suffer." "Then why must we?" "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.

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

Oh, God, I can't hope for anything. I can't. I won't survive if I do.

Hasn't God always chosen things the world considers foolish in order to shame those who think they are wise? - Mary

Man planned, but God prevailed.

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.

Did Honoring mean to do everything you were told without question? Did it mean swift capitulation? Did it mean giving up yourself for the sake of living out someone else's dreams? No matter what that dream was?

You must obey the Lord. Whatever He says, you must do. God gave us the Law to protect us, to teach us how to live righteously before Him. The battle belongs to the Lord. We are to be holy as He is holy!

She had never seen anything so beautiful. Morning light spilled slowly over the mountains, across the valley to the cabin and the woods behind, and up the hillside. She felt Hosea's strong hands on her shoulders. "Mara, that's the life I want to give you.

It wasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.

Whatever tomorrow brought, today she had Michael.