The Lord will provide. Francine Rivers More Quotes by Francine Rivers More Quotes From Francine Rivers I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want Francine Rivers together want love-you Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you. Francine Rivers godly god-love god I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them. Francine Rivers finding-happiness believe father Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone. Francine Rivers battle fighting trying We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross. Francine Rivers thieves done jesus Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. Francine Rivers light darkness doubt Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him. Francine Rivers love-you giving jesus Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy. Francine Rivers chaos height depth Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life. Francine Rivers passion eden darkness Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs? Francine Rivers rights fire beautiful Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in. Francine Rivers paradise men way Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences? Francine Rivers rights men mean True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it. Francine Rivers true-beauty Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life. Francine Rivers eden love-is way my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go! Francine Rivers redeeming-love weapons letting-go I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose. Francine Rivers gave-up loses i-can As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart. Francine Rivers kings heart men Can you see air you breathe? Can you see the force that moves the tides or changes the seasons or sends the birds to a winter haven?" Her eyes welled. "Can Rome with all its knowledge be so foolish? Oh Marcus, you can't carve God in stone. You can't limit him to a temple. You can't imprison him on a mountaintop. Heaven is his throne; earth, his footstool. Everything you see is his. Empires will rise and empires will fall. Only God prevails. Francine Rivers eye fall moving It was no accident, no coincidence, that the seasons came round and round year after year. It was the Lord speaking to us all and showing us over and over again the birth, life, death, and resurrection of his only begotten Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, our Lord. It was like a best-loved story being told day after day with each sunrise and sunset, year after year with the seasons, down through the ages since time began. Francine Rivers sunset son jesus ...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty. Francine Rivers redeeming-love thirty miles
