Quotes from Francine Rivers

Falling in love meant you lost control of your emotions and your will and your life. It meant you lost yourself.

Kathryn didn't know it, but Matthias had, months before, made the same list she gave him. The minute she started rattling in off in panic to keep him at bay, he knew they thought ale. Everyone in town knew what Calvada lacked. It was still lite more than a rough-and-tumble mining camp, but he had a vision of what it could become. City had lit the fire. Kathryns arrival fanned the flame.

Yes, but this God could give us anything and everything we want. Why does He withhold a feast from heaven and instead make us grovel on our knees every morning for one day's portion of manna?

He was writing on men's hearts through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. But few listened. Few leaned in and sought out God's will for their lives.

Right now love doesn't have an awful lot to do with feelings

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."

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7

Michael saw God in everything. He saw him in the wind and the rain and the earth. He saw him in the crops that were growing. He saw God in the nature of the animals that inhabited their land. He saw him in the flames of their evening fire.

Michael had been something new to him, too. He was one of those rare men who lived what he believed, not once in a while, but every hour of every day, even when the going wasn't easy. 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.

I am the way, the truth, and the life," Jesus said. "No one comes to the Father except through Me.

A man's hearted could rub deeper than any gift could reach.

These women were not perfect and yet God in His infinite mercy used them in His perfect plan to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. We live in desperate, troubled times when millions seek answers. These women point the way. The lessons we can learn from them are as applicable today as when they lived thousands of years ago. Tamar is a woman of hope. Rahab is a woman of faith. Ruth is a woman of love. Bathsheba is a woman who received unlimited Grace. Mary is a woman of obedience.