Quotes from Francine Rivers

Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails. PROVERBS 19 : 21

Jesus did not come to enhance our lives. He came to save us.

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

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.

Life is like a pond, and every decision and act we commit, good or bad, is a pebble flung into it. The ripples spread in widening circles.

I have an idea. Why don't we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again." Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. "What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it.

But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16

Don't trust in your own strength. None of us is strong in him or herself. It's the Lord who upholds us.

Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? What has this god of yours ever really done for you? She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. Everything.

Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering

Silence did not always mean indifference

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON

He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.

infant's face and brushed the tiny palm. When the baby's fingers closed around his finger, his heart raced even faster. Never had he felt such encompassing joy—and spreading terror. Am I to be his earthly father, Lord? A simple carpenter? Surely your Son deserves better than I! Joseph looked around at the dark walls of the shepherds

Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.

Open my eyes to see the wonderful truths in your instructions. . . . Keep me from lying to myself. . . . Help me abandon my shameful ways. . . . I believe in your commands; now teach me good judgment and knowledge.

He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.

You teach the heart as well as the mind. Sometimes the truth is hard to bear, but it's better to walk in the light of truth than to live in the darkness of lies.

gold because he was a King, frankincense because he was the High Priest for all men, and myrrh because he would die for the sins of the world.

I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.

As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.