Top 200 Francine Rivers Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “It’s not for me to condemn anyone, no matter what they do, but I fear for her. God knows.”

— Francine Rivers

152. “Jesus did not come to enhance our lives. He came to save us.”

— Francine Rivers

153. “However this child was conceived, God will be the Father. My baby won’t enter the world unloved or unwanted. If I can’t feel a full measure of joy, I know the Lord will.”

— Francine Rivers

154. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

155. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

156. “Do my will, beloved. I drew you up from the desolate pit, out of the miry bog, and set your feet upon a rock.”

— Francine Rivers

157. “He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.”

— Francine Rivers

158. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

159. “Better to have trouble with man than trouble with God.”

— Francine Rivers

160. “It was as though her tongue were a heavy weight in her mouth, and now her heart was even heavier for having kept silent.”

— Francine Rivers

161. “Man planned, but God prevailed.”

— Francine Rivers

162. “Anything less than your best dishonors God.”

— Francine Rivers

163. “When he told his story to believers, they wept and rejoiced. To unbelievers, he was an object of ridicule. The euphoria and security she felt with those who shared her faith dissolved when she watched her father stand before a crowd and suffer their abuse.”

— Francine Rivers

164. “None of them, not even he, seemed to realize they weren’t just physical beings, that God had left a mark upon them by the simple fact of his creation. They preferred their idols, tangible, possessing, capricious characteristics like themselves, easily understood. They wanted something they could manipulate. God was inconceivable, intangible, incomprehensible, unexploitable.”

— Francine Rivers

165. “Whatever happens to me, the Lord is always with you.”

— Francine Rivers

166. “Can’t sleep?” Michael whispered. She shook her head. “Turn on your side.” When she did, he drew her back against him, tucking her into his body. The child shifted, snuggling deeper into the quilts and pressing into Angel’s stomach. “You’ve got a friend,” Michael murmured. Angel put her arm around Ruth and closed her eyes. Michael put his arm around both of them. “Maybe we’ll have one like her someday,” he said against her ear.”

— Francine Rivers

167. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

168. “I think about what I’ve lost instead of thinking about what I have.”

— Francine Rivers

169. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

170. “Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It’s that simple. We’re to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That’s our life’s work.”

— Francine Rivers

171. “This generation seems to see children as a financial burden and responsibility to be avoided.”

— Francine Rivers

172. “You’re going to marry me, and I’m going to take you out of here.”

— Francine Rivers

173. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

174. “If God wills that I die, then I die. No power on earth can change that.”

— Francine Rivers

175. “Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.”

— Francine Rivers

176. “I’d rather see your honest pain than a brave front.”

— Francine Rivers

177. “Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.”

— Francine Rivers

178. “Do you really think God’s plan will collapse over the frailties of one man’s temper?”

— Francine Rivers

179. “This god that she worshiped consumed her. It didn’t ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This god wanted all of her.”

— Francine Rivers

180. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

181. “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?”

— Francine Rivers

182. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

183. “Hogwash. You’re just running because you’re scared, because you’re beginning to like it here.” She swung at him, but he blocked her hand. She swung again, and he caught her wrist. “Finally I have your full attention!” He let her twist free. “At least you’re looking at me instead of through me.” Angel spun away and marched across the yard. She went into the cabin and slammed the door. Michael expected to see something come crashing through the window, but nothing did.”

— Francine Rivers

184. “God always answers, in His time, not in yours. You’ll know what you’re supposed to do when the time comes.”

— Francine Rivers

185. “What does the body matter if the soul is dead?”

— Francine Rivers

186. “How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don’t believe in?”

— Francine Rivers

187. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

188. “He liked going to the library...”

— Francine Rivers

189. “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.”

— Francine Rivers

190. “Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.”

— Francine Rivers

191. “People either weigh you down or give you wings.”

— Francine Rivers

192. “Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.”

— Francine Rivers

193. “All day Annie had watched family members, friends, and neighbors wander around the garden, and she kept thinking how they were all like flowers. Some were poppies, blooming bold and brief. Others were like ornamental vines, passionflowers, or trumpets. Still others were shy violets and wallflowers. And all together, what a beautiful world they made. Everyone different, everyone amazing to behold.”

— Francine Rivers

194. “Don’t trust in your own strength. None of us is strong in him or herself. It’s the Lord who upholds us.”

— Francine Rivers

195. “There’s order everywhere: the stars, the seasons, the currents of the ocean, the air that moves over the planet, down to the cells that make up everything.”

— Francine Rivers

196. “If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.”

— Francine Rivers

197. “Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.”

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198. “Amanda! Where are you?” Michael called. Laughing, she stood on tiptoe. “Over here,” she called back and then ran down the row to hide. “All right,” he said, laughing. “Where did you go?” She whistled at him from her hiding place. She and Ruthie had played hide-and-seek in the rows the day before, and she was in a joyous mood today, ready to tease Michael. “What do I get if I find you?” “What have you got in mind?” “Oh, a little of this and that.”

— Francine Rivers

199. “I have an idea. Why don’t we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again.” Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. “What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it.”

— Francine Rivers

200. “It will all work out as it should.”

— Francine Rivers