Francine Rivers

“Wherever you go, let Christ be your refuge. Put your hope in Him, and you won’t be disappointed by what life offers.”

— Francine Rivers

“Jonathan closed his eyes. Oh, God, it’s not the way I had things planned. But then, what of real, lasting value ever…

— Francine Rivers

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

— Francine Rivers

The battle would not take place in the mountains, valleys, or plains of Israel. It would take place in the wilderness of…

— Francine Rivers

“It’s not for me to condemn anyone, no matter what they do, but I fear for her. God knows.”

— Francine Rivers

“Concerns buzzed like flies in her head, and she swatted them with prayers.”

— Francine Rivers

“Letting go isn’t giving up. It’s trusting God to do whatever He has to do.”

— Francine Rivers

“He needed the warmth of the sun to take away the chill of foreboding that grew in him.”

— Francine Rivers

Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form.…

— Francine Rivers

“Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important…

— Francine Rivers

Everyone wanted to be the best. Best student. Best servant. Best Christian. They got caught up in it, pressing and pushing until…

— Francine Rivers

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was…

— Francine Rivers

We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the…

— Francine Rivers

That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in…

— Francine Rivers

“courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the…

— Francine Rivers

“We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we’ve made the same mistakes…

— Francine Rivers

my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!

— Francine Rivers

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heaven. MILTON”

— Francine Rivers

“She was scornful. “He talks to you personally?” “He talks to everyone personally. Most people just don’t bother to listen.”

— Francine Rivers

Fiction can serve in a non-threatening way to open minds and, I hope, hearts to the Word of God.

— Francine Rivers

“Oh!" Hadassah said, a catch in her throat. "Put me down, please." Rashid knew in that instant they were in the lion's…

— 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…

— Francine Rivers

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your…

— Francine Rivers

My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting…

— Francine Rivers

“Only later during her prayers had it come to her how cunning Satan could be. Her love for Marcus could become a…

— Francine Rivers

“Love one another as he loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don’t weaken.…

— Francine Rivers

“For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl. Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything,…

— Francine Rivers

I became a Christian late, in my late 30s, so I had a lot of things that I was bringing into my…

— Francine Rivers

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human…

— Francine Rivers

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting…

— Francine Rivers

“Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John’s dear…

— Francine Rivers

“If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s that you’ve got no say in what other people do with their…

— Francine Rivers

“He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things…

— Francine Rivers

“The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he shatter her?…

— Francine Rivers