Top 100 Francine Rivers Quotes
#2. Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.
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#3. I actually worked in the general market for many years writing steamy historical romance, and I had more freedom in the Christian market than I ever did in the general market to write about any issue that I needed to write about.
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#4. 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
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#5. The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
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#6. When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?
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#7. Sarah and Michael shared many happy years together. On their seventh anniversary, their prayers were answered with the birth of a son, Stephen. Stephen was followed by Luke, Lydia, and Esther.
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#8. My job is to allow the character to live and breathe - and become as real to the reader as he or she is to me.
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#9. Jesus was with her, but she couldn't see Him; she couldn't touch Him. Never one for hugs and kisses from anyone but Niclas, she missed human touch. Why
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#10. Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
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#11. Michael straightened. "I still married her, and I'd marry her again if I had it to do over." A simple statement, calmly and quietly delivered, but his eyes were burning with wrath.
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#13. Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
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#14. Julia was blind and deaf to to the truth. She was ignorant. Did one reprove a blind woman for inability to see? Did one become angry with the deaf for not hearing?
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#15. 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.
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#16. Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
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#17. It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly. Some,
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#18. Song of Solomon told me a man and woman's passion is intended to be mutual." His smile dissolved and he looked troubled. "A shared blessing.
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#20. Why I Wrote Redeeming Love Many born-again Christians talk about a single conversion experience that changed their lives forever. They can tell you the day and the hour they made their decision to live for the Lord. I can't do that.
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#21. Angel, Michael's still waiting for you to come home." Her face went deathly white. "It's been over three years. He can't still be waiting." "He is.
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#22. But the eyes of the Lord are watching over those who fear him, who rely upon his steady love. "He will keep them from death. . . ." Psalm 33:18
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#23. A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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#24. 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.
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#25. Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.
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#27. If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She's part of me. Do you understand? She's part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?
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#28. Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
Hadassah
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#29. My love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
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#30. God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
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#31. Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering
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#32. Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you.
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#33. 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.
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#34. This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.
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#35. I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.
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#36. 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.
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#37. He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
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#38. Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
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#39. I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.
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#41. Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.
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#42. Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.
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#43. My lord, to accept God's grace is to live with hope. If you but confess your sins and believe, the Lord will forgive you. Ask and he will come to dwell in your heart, and you will have the peace you crave. You only have to believe.
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#44. What-ifs went around and around in her head. What if Mama
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#46. We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?
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#47. Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
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#48. That you will know and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and learn who you are in Him.
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#49. Satan is a powerful adversary who knows you almost as intimately as does the Lord. He attacks through the mind and flesh, trying to separate you from Christ." "That
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#50. She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.
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#51. God salts the earth with the faithful because those who cling to the Lord in faith through all circumstances preserve the rest from complete destruction.
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#52. 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.
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#53. Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.
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#54. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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#55. I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing
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#56. Lord, forgive me. 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. Help me. Open my heart and mind so that I will love her as you have loved me.
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#57. These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.
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#59. Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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#60. I had been raised in the church, but I wasn't a Christian. I had a lot of head knowledge but no heart knowledge.
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#62. Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.
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#63. Lord God of heaven and earth, I beg You to give me the confidence of Joshua. Instill in me Your purpose. Do not let me weaken. You are God and there is no other! "Prepare
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#64. she's ready." A gorgeous blonde came in with a box that opened
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#65. Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautiful clothes. You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. 1 PETER 3:3-4
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#66. 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.
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#67. Oh!" Hadassah said, a catch in her throat. "Put me down, please."
Rashid knew in that instant they were in the lion's den.
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#68. God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God's power is perfect in our weakness,
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#69. He needed to get away from the rush of the city, from the unceasing noise and annoying obligations.
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#71. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest. JESUS, MATTHEW 11 : 29
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#72. My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything.
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#73. For some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
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#76. You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah
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#77. I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my Christian life that I regret. And I had a lot of questions about faith, so that's where I start when I write.
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#78. singing has to come from the inside, and i don't have anything left inside.'
'really? How did that happen?'
'it all just drained out.
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#79. Like everyone else, there are days when I don't want to go to work. However, writing is a job like anything else.
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#80. 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.
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#81. She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.
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#82. Juan Garcia began putting chairs upside down on the tables. Gathering Mr. Packard's spoon, cup, and saucer, Dynah watched the old man walk stiffly across the room. His arthritis was troubling him again.
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#83. It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.
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#84. How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.
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#85. 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?
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#86. Michael took a cloth and dried her hair. When he finished, he pulled her close and cradled her in his arms. "Flesh of my flesh," he whispered against her hair. "Blood of my blood.
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#87. He had fallen head over heels for a devil with blue eyes and waist-length blonde hair and a body that would tempt a man into sin and death.
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#88. Every God demands sacrifice. What sacrifice does your God require?' 'Obedience.
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#89. Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a tool against her, for when her heart and mind were on Marcus, Julia lay forgotten.
Nothing must distract her from her mission here. And no one.
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#91. Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.
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#92. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ROMANS 8:28
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#93. Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.
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#94. courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
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#96. 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.
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#97. Come away with me and be my wife." She gave a harsh laugh. "If you want a wife, send for one by mail, or wait for the next wagon train to cross the mountains." He came toward her. "I can give you a good life. I don't care how you got here or where you've been before. Come with me now.
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#98. the boys in line." Hildemara didn't receive a reward for
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#99. Merrick chucked Sarah's chin and stroked her cheek. Eyes blue as violets and hair like an angel. Your mama must be mighty pretty if she's anything like you. I'd like to see her.
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#100. 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.
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