Top 100 Francine Rivers Quotes
#1. I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love
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#2. 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
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#3. 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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#4. I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.
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#5. 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.
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#6. This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.
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#7. 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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#8. Just because you don't believe in the Lord doesn't mean his power isn't working for you.
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#9. Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.
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#10. Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1
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#11. Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.
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#12. 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.
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#13. Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering
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#14. Letting go isn't giving up. It's trusting God to do whatever He has to do.
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#15. God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
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#16. My love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
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#17. Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God.
Hadassah
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#18. suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.
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#19. 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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#21. Our salvation depends on not who we are but on who He is
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#22. Matter what your father plans, nor what his motives might be. God will prevail. God will use everything to His good purpose if you love and trust Him.
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#24. The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.
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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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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. She thought she had been saved by his love for her, and in part she had been. It had cleansed her, never casting blame. But that had been only the beginning. It was loving him in return that had brought her up out of the darkness.
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#29. 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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#31. 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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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. That you will know and accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord and learn who you are in Him.
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#35. Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.
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#36. 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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#38. Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.
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#39. What-ifs went around and around in her head. What if Mama
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#40. 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.
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#41. A woman could be the wind beneath a man's sails or a gale to send him into uncharted waters. She could be an anchor in stormy seas, or she could let him drift into the rocks.
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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. I'm not your father! I'm not Duke! I'm not some gent paying for half an hour in your bed!" His hands tightened on her arms. "I'm your husband! I don't take what you feel lightly. I love you. You're my wife!
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#44. Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.
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#45. 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.
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#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"
"You are free. You just don't know it yet
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#50. He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.
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#52. Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.
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#53. 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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#54. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
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#55. 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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#56. But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
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#57. 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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#58. The great greatest gift you can give him is the freedom to spread his wings.
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#59. 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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#61. 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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#62. Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.
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#63. Another reason for right living is that you know how late it is; time is running out. Wake up, for the coming of our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. ROMANS 13:11
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#64. 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.
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#66. 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
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#67. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is by believing in your heart that you are made right with God, and it is by confessing with your mouth that you are saved. ROMANS 10:9-10
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#68. Love one another, Jesus said. Sometimes it took a lifetime to learn how. Sometimes it took someone to hit rock bottom to make someone reach up and grasp hold and be lifted from the mire to stand on a firm foundation.
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#69. 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.
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#70. True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.
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#72. The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
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#73. Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
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#74. I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.
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#75. Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?
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#76. Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?
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#77. It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly. Some,
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#78. A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.
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#79. 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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#80. The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.
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#81. We're each single threads woven together in a tapestry God has created. Only he sees the full picture, but not even a sparrow falls without his knowing.
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#82. Why couldn't he trust that the Lord would do the same for her? Because he knew she didn't believe.
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#83. 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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#84. She was scornful. "He talks to you personally?" "He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don't bother to listen.
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#85. 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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#86. Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?
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#88. 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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#89. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?
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#90. Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.
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#91. Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
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#92. 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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#93. I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
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#94. 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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#95. Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
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#97. We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.
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#98. 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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#99. Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
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#100. 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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