Top 200 Francine Rivers Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7.”

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

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3. “Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”

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4. “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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5. “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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6. “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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7. “But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!” ISAIAH 43 : 1.”

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8. “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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9. “I’m only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior.”

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10. “Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.”

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11. “Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”

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12. “The Lord will provide.”

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13. “Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”

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14. “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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15. “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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16. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding.”

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17. “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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18. “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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19. “The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of the human heart.”

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20. “Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”

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21. “So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them. JESUS, MATTHEW 7 : 12.”

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22. “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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23. “Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”

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24. “True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”

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25. “God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.”

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

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

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28. “Be still and know that I am God, said the Spirit within Hadassah. And so she obeyed, waiting upon him while laying her hopes bare.”

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29. “Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.”

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30. “Nothing brings people closer together than shared suffering.”

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31. “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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32. “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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33. “The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn’t been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.”

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34. “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.”

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35. “Resentment and anger eat away at love as quickly as rust is corroding that metal lawn chair out there in the backyard. One of life’s great tragedies is watching a relationship unravel over something that could’ve been resolved in one intelligent, adult conversation.”

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36. “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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37. “I gave up what I can’t keep for something I can never lose.”

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38. “Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we’ve nothing worth living for.”

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39. “Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”

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40. “One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea. He.”

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41. “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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42. “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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43. “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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44. “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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45. “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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46. “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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47. “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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48. “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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49. “Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn’t beat you down. It doesn’t cast blame.”

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50. “Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. – Hadassah.”

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