I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away. 'Why not?''because you'll just end up using it against me.

— Francine Rivers

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

— Francine Rivers

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

— Francine Rivers

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

— Francine Rivers

I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.

— Francine Rivers

I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

— Francine Rivers

I start work by spending time in personal Bible study. Because my projects center on a question in my own faith walk, I find Bible study essential. And God gives me scriptures daily that speak to the question with which I'm struggling.

— Francine Rivers

It doesn't take two minutes on an examining table for a girl to know that abortion is painful and destructive, and it'll have far-reaching effects on her life. Besides the emotional trauma of going through something so violent, there are the physical aspects, the aftereffects. Unfortunately, by the time she's gone that far, it's too late to change her mind.

— Francine Rivers

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

— Francine Rivers

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. Furthermore, 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