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“...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“The truth is, the brain can be reprogrammed. You just have to be deliberate about it.”
― Charles Duhigg, The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free"

"You are free. You just don't know it yet”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“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, Redeeming Love

“I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“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, Redeeming Love

“Just because you don’t believe in the Lord doesn’t mean his power isn’t working for you.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Though fallen low God raised her up”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“I learned a long time ago we’ve control of little in this world, Amanda. It doesn’t belong to us. It’s out of our hands. Like being born or being sold into prostitution at eight. All we can change is the way we think and the way we live.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“I want someone wonderful. I want a man to love me the way Michael loves you. I want a man willing to fight for me. I want a man who won’t let me walk away from him.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“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”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“She was so tightly wrapped in herself, her own misery and dark thoughts, that she was blind to everything else. Especially him.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Though fallen low God raised her up An angel.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet. Throat burning, she looked down at his dark head and struggled with the feelings rising in her. She waited for them to die away, but they wouldn’t.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“her. “Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn’t beat you down. It doesn’t cast blame.” He kissed her again, wishing he had the right words to say what he felt. Words would never be enough to show her what he meant. “My love isn’t a weapon. It’s a lifeline. Reach out and take hold, and don’t let go.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Why did you come for me?” “You’re my wife.” “I left the ring on the table! I didn’t steal it.” “That didn’t change a thing. We’re still married.” “You could’ve just forgotten about it.” He stopped and glared at her. “It’s a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It’s not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“Angel, Michael’s still waiting for you to come home.” Her face went deathly white. “It’s been over three years. He can’t still be waiting.” “He is.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“She thought she had been saved by his love for her, and in part she had been. It had cleansed her, never casting blame. But that had been only the beginning. It was loving him in return that had brought her up out of the darkness.”
― Francine Rivers, Redeeming Love

“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, A Voice in the Wind

“Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“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, A Voice in the Wind

“Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind