Top 200 Francine Rivers Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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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102. “We all just use each other in one way or another. To feel good. To feel bad. To feel nothing at all. The lucky ones are real good at it.”

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103. “Oh, what foolish creatures we are. Cursed with our pride! Cursed with our stubbornness! No wonder God has forsaken us.”

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104. “God permits suffering. He permits injustice. I know your father can be cruel and selfish at times. But there were tender moments in the beginning. He lives with bitter disappointment. He’s never learned to count his blessings. If you are to rise above your circumstances, you.”

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105. “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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106. “Oh, Lord, sometimes I know how David feels. Where are You when I need You? Why do You seem so far away? Why are You so silent? I can count my blessings from morning to night. I can remember all the things You’ve done for me from the time I was a little child. I remember and I cry out to You, and You’re nowhere to be found. I have lost my joy.”

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107. “Colors come from a phenomenon called scattering. The wavelengths of light and the size of the particles determine the colors.”

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108. “Sometimes you have to tell the truth, no matter how hard it is. Even when it doesn’t change anything. People seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.”

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109. “You’ve had more than your share of heartache, honey, but sometimes what looks like a gift is a gift.”

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110. “Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.”

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111. “Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!”

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112. “All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn’t.”

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113. “Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vain.”

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

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115. “Satan is an eternal being, like God. He may not know all things as God does or have God’s power, but he knows our weaknesses even better than we do. He knows us intimately. He knows the evil desires of our heart and mind. He knows where and when to attack to gain the best advantage. Satan schemes and plays upon those things in order to separate us from God and bring about our destruction. Never underestimate him. Without our armor, we’re vulnerable.” Atretes.”

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116. “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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117. “Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.”

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118. “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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119. “You touch that young woman, and I will see you hang.”

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120. “Lord,” he said heavily. “Lord, this isn’t exactly what I had in mind.” But he knew he was going to marry that girl anyway.”

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121. “She has not one particle of vanity in her. She covers her scars because they disturb others. No other reason than that. People see the mark of the lion on her. They fail to see what it means.”

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122. “Blinding light filled the darkness. Someone clasped his wrist, lifting him, and in the midst of hell’s cacophony, whispered, “I am.”

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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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.”

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126. “We grieve for those we’ve lost, but it’s the living that cause us the most pain...”

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127. “Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency?”

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128. “In Christ, you are His child. You are raised up with Him. You are forgiven. In Christ, you are a new creation, the very temple of the Holy Spirit. You are delivered from the power of darkness. You are redeemed, blessed, holy, and sanctified. Even now, God is holding your child close. And in Christ, you will be reunited in love.”

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129. “These conquerors of the world are slaves to their passions, and someday their passions will bring them down.”

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130. “All I can tell you is faith is just the beginning of a long, difficult journey.”

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131. “Silence did not always mean indifference.”

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132. “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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133. “Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.”

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134. “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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135. “But why? Where are you going?” “Home,” Angel said. “I’m going home.”

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136. “Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.”

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137. “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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138. “Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord; his appearing is as sure as the dawn; he will come to us like the showers, like the spring rains that water the earth.”

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139. “And the answers had always come down to trusting God, obeying Him, accepting His will, knowing there was a purpose in what was happening even if they couldn’t see it. But sometimes the pain seemed unbearable.”

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140. “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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141. “I was learning to recognize when God was speaking through someone. He repeats himself. He says it over and over because we are so stubborn, stupid and unwilling. And even scared. Even when he tells us not to be afraid, we set our minds about it, worrying and fretting about every little thing. I was shaken by what God expected us to do.”

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142. “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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143. “Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.”

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144. “God, who established the heavens, set the price for life, and it was the blood of the lamb.”

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145. “I’ll take care of that.” Merrick bent and pinched Sarah’s chin. “You say anything to anybody about me being in this room with Cleo, and I’ll cut your little pink tongue out. Understand?” Sarah believed him, and nodded her head. He smiled slightly and let her go. She darted to the corner and crouched there, trembling and feeling sick. “See?” Merrick crowed gleefully. “Nothing to worry about. She won’t say a word about us to anyone.”

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146. “Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John’s dear face she found infinite compassion, love, the glow of fierce conviction, the strength of true faith.”

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147. “All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.”

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148. “Tribulation came from losing sight of Jesus and looking at the troubled, fallen world. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.”

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149. “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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150. “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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