286 Quotes by Francine Rivers

We must seize every opportunity we can to speak the truth and proclaim peace. Especially now. There's so little time for many.

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?

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

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.

singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’‘really?’ Ruth said, amazed, ‘How did that happen?’‘it all just drained out.

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

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.

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.

Bithia seemed wise in the ways of the world, but she was completely ignorant of what she brought upon herself. Commerce with the powers of darkness might gain her what she desired for the moment, but at what cost in the end?