286 Quotes by Francine Rivers

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.

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.

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

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.

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

He had fallen head over heels for a devil with blue eyes and waist-length blonde hair and a body that would tempt a man into sin and death.

She was scornful. “He talks to you personally?” “He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don’t bother to listen.

As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee. PSALM 42 : 1.

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