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“These women were not perfect and yet God in His infinite mercy used them in His perfect plan to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of the world. We live in desperate, troubled times when millions seek answers. These women point the way. The lessons we can learn from them are as applicable today as when they lived thousands of years ago. Tamar is a woman of hope. Rahab is a woman of faith. Ruth is a woman of love. Bathsheba is a woman who received unlimited Grace. Mary is a woman of obedience.”
― Francine Rivers, Unafraid: Mary

“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”
― Daniel J. Siegel, The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

“Every religion in the world is about man trying to reach up to God, like working your way up the ladder. They’re all about striving to achieve something for yourself. Christianity is the only religion about God reaching down to man and offering salvation as a free gift, with the added bonus of a personal relationship with the Creator God through Jesus Christ, who was there in the beginning.”
― Francine Rivers, Leota's Garden

“The sea contains many surprises for him who has his floor on a level with the surface and drifts along slowly and noiselessly. A sportsman who breaks his way through the woods may come back and say that no wild life is to be seen. Another may sit down on a stump and wait, and often rustlings and cracklings will begin and curious eyes peer out. So it is on the sea, too. We usually plow across it with roaring engines and piston strokes, with the water foaming round our bow. Then we come back and say that there is nothing to see far out on the ocean.”
― Thor Heyerdahl, Kon-Tiki

“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

“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

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

“We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we’ve made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.”
― Francine Rivers, Her Daughter's Dream

“I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.”
― Francine Rivers, Her Daughter's Dream

“In Him we live and breathe. In Him we will one day find one another again. In Him we are one. In this life we will not love perfectly. In the next, God promises we will. I hold to that hope. I cling to that dream.”
― Francine Rivers, Her Daughter's Dream

“Our salvation depends on not who we are but on who He is”
― Francine Rivers, Unashamed: Rahab

“He will forgive you, but he won't remove the consequences... We must learn to obey”
― Francine Rivers, Unspoken: Bathsheba

“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

“Rather than remain a sealed jar, she sought only to pour herself out to others. Everything she did mirrored her faith. It was as though every waking hour of the day she was devoted to pleasing her God by serving others. This God that she worshiped consumed her. It didn't ask for a brief visit to a temple, or a small votive offering of food or coin, or a few prayers every now and then. This God wanted all of her.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“How can we be witnesses of the one true God if we hold the truth as our own possession? God meant his truth for the world.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“Tell me everything about this woman you once knew. Tell me everything she ever told you about Jesus of Nazareth."
Marcus saw the fever in his eyes. "Why?" he said, frowning. "Why does it matter?"
"Just tell me, Marcus Lucianus Valerian. Tell me everything. From the beginning. Let me decide for myself what matters."
And so Marcus did as he was asked. He gave in to his deep need to speak of Hadassah. And all the while he talked of her, he failed to see the irony in what he was doing. For as he told the story of a simple Judean slave girl, Marcus Lucianus Valerian, a Roman who didn't believe in anything, proclaimed the gospel of Jesus Christ.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“Dwelling on the past only defeated her chances for changing the future.”
― Francine Rivers, An Echo in the Darkness

“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”
― Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew

“Anything less than your best dishonors God”
― Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew

“Be you writer or reader, it is very pleasant to run away in a book.”
― Jean Craighead George, My Side of the Mountain

“Not till the bad feelings come out can the good ones come in.”
― Adele Faber, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

“Insisting upon good feelings between the children led to bad feelings. Acknowledging bad feelings between the children led to good feelings. A circuitous route to sibling harmony. And yet, the most direct.”
― Adele Faber, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

“You’ll never go wrong if you describe what you think the child might be feeling (‘You must be so proud of yourself!’) or what the child has accomplished (‘A lot of practice and perseverance went into winning that medal’).”
― Adele Faber, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

“The passion and excitement you feel about a child’s achievement should be saved for a moment when just the two of you are together. It’s too much for the other siblings to have to listen to.”
― Adele Faber, Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too