286 Quotes by Francine Rivers

Emotions are powerful, but they also change as quick as the wind. That's why the Lord says to renew your mind. Don't base decisions on what you feel.

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

The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her? "What has this god of yours ever really done for you?" She stood very still for a long moment, her back to him. "Everything.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

When she felt the tears coming up, building like a great hard pressure inside her, hot, so hot she thought they would burn, she swallowed them down deeper and deeper until they became a hard little stone in her chest.

I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.

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

Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...