Leaving the group, he reclined on a couch, drank morosely, and watched people. He noticed the games they played with one another. They put on masks of civility, all while spewing their venom.

— Francine Rivers

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

Love God, and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

— Francine Rivers

Mara, that's the life I want to give you. That's what I'm offering you. I want to fill you life with color and warmth. I want to fill it with light. Give me a chance

— Francine Rivers

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

Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

— Francine Rivers

Never doubt in the darkness what God has given us in the light.

— Francine Rivers

Only later did he remember his pride-and the shattering cost of an illusive sense of freedom.

— Francine Rivers

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

— Francine Rivers

Perhaps it was the approach of death that had opened his eyes wide and made him see so clearly.

— Francine Rivers