“Stand firm in the Lord, Hadassah. Stand firm and let him fight your battles. Do not try to fight alone.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“What do you want of God, Roman?” It was an imperious question from so small a boy, and was said with a curious blend of humility and demand. “I’ll know when I face him.” “Perhaps the answers you seek can’t be found in something you can see and touch.” Amused, Marcus smiled. “You have big thoughts for a small boy.” The boy grinned. “A shepherd has time to think.” “Then, my little philosopher, what would you advise?” The boy’s smile faded. “When you face God, remember he is God.” “I’ll remember what he’s done,” Marcus said coldly. “That, too,” the boy said almost gently.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“We were all created incomplete and will find no rest until we satisfy the deepest hunger and thirst within us. You’ve tried to satisfy it in your own way. I see that in your eyes, too, as I’ve seen it in so many others. And yet, though you deny it with your last breath, your soul yearns for God,”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Satan is an eternal being, like God. He may not know all things as God does or have God’s power, but he knows our weaknesses even better than we do. He knows us intimately. He knows the evil desires of our heart and mind. He knows where and when to attack to gain the best advantage. Satan schemes and plays upon those things in order to separate us from God and bring about our destruction. Never underestimate him. Without our armor, we’re vulnerable.” Atretes”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will direct your paths” (Proverbs 3:5-6). We can choose to be self-sufficient or to rely on God. We can act on our own understanding regarding life’s circumstances, or we can seek God’s will in every situation. But only one choice assures us that God will direct our paths.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“And the Holy Spirit helps us in our distress. For we don’t even know what we should pray for, nor how we should pray. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words. ROMANS 8:26”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What had happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“upon entering the school of medicine in Rome. He was the only student whose father had once been a slave, a fact that had less impact in Rome, where he had still had unlimited”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“gold because he was a King, frankincense because he was the High Priest for all men, and myrrh because he would die for the sins of the world.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Listen to me, friend. Lay aside your pride or it will entangle you in sin. Anger is your worst enemy.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“God salts the earth with the faithful because those who cling to the Lord in faith through all circumstances preserve the rest from complete destruction.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek him.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Satan is a powerful adversary who knows you almost as intimately as does the Lord. He attacks through the mind and flesh, trying to separate you from Christ.” “That”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“When two oxen are yoked together, they must pull in the same direction, Marcus. If one pulls to the right, and the other to the left, what happens?”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“You have whatever strength God has given you, and it will be enough to carry out his good purpose. Trust in him.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“In a Christian marriage, Atretes, the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, he himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so you will be subject to Christ, and so also Rizpah will be subject to you in everything. Love her, just as Christ also loves you and gave himself up for you. Sacrificially, willing even to die for her. Love her as you love your own body. Sustain and protect her in all circumstances.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Father said it is not God’s will that any should suffer.” “Then why must we?” “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, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“The Holy Spirit comes to dwell within us when we believe in Christ and are redeemed. It is through the Spirit that God reveals mysteries to us, for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“feuding and revenge were ingrained in their lives. “I”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“Lord, why was it his child you gave to me? Why did you send me here to this man so that I remember the things done to me? Shimei interceded and brought me to you, and you healed me. Now, I see Atretes and feel the old wounds reopened. Hold me fast, Father. Don’t let me slip; don’t let me fall. Don’t let me think as I used to think or live as I used to live. “Life is cruel, Atretes, but you have a choice. Choose forgiveness and be free.” “Forgiveness!” The word came out of the dark shadows like a curse. “There are some things in this world that can never be forgiven.” Her eyes burned with tears. “I once felt the same way, but it turns back on you and eats you alive. When Christ saved me, everything changed. The world didn’t look the same.” “The world doesn’t change.” “No. The world didn’t. I did.” He”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“It wasn’t what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“I have an idea. Why don’t we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again.” Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. “What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it.” Her”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“But the eyes of the Lord are watching over those who fear him, who rely upon his steady love. “He will keep them from death. . . .” Psalm 33:18”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“God chooses the foolish and weak things of the world to shame the wise and the strong, to show his power and our weakness without him. God’s power is perfect in our weakness,”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
“We need to be patient with him.” “As he’s patient with them?” “No, as God is patient with us. Contrary to what you’re thinking right now, Atretes shouldn’t be your first concern. Our first obligation is to the Lord.” “I know, but . . .” “You know, but are you acting according to what you know or what you feel?” She”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Mark of the Lion Trilogy
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“The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? — how far? — how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern.”
― Aldous Huxley, quote from The Doors of Perception
“Father’s eyes, like fragments of ice, studied Darkstalker’s every scale, and Darkstalker could feel the cold, congealing weight of Father’s resentment. “He looks every inch a NightWing,” Father growled. “Not a shred of me in him at all.” Suspicion,”
― Tui T. Sutherland, quote from Darkstalker
“Sometimes it’s in the most unsettling moments that the mind has the clearest thoughts.”
― Heather Burch, quote from In the Light of the Garden
“right arm got wrecked in a fireworks calamity, of all things. He was setting some off for a big display and part of the metal rig that they were resting on had a loose bolt or something, and the whole thing came down and crushed his arm. He can’t use it much and it looks a bit weird, kind of twisted to one side. He got some money from the insurance company, and he stopped working at the factory.”
― quote from Time Travelling with a Hamster
“Something Rich and Strange
She takes a step and the water rises higher on her knees. Four more steps, she tells herself. Just four more and I'll turn back. She takes another step and the bottom is no longer there and she is being shoved downstream and she does not panic because she has passed the Red Cross courses. The water shallows and her face breaks the surface and she breathes deep. She tries to turn her body so she won' t hit her head on a rock and for the first time she's afraid and she's suddenly back underwater and hears the rush of water against her ears. She tries to hold her breath but her knee smashes against a boulder and she gasps in pain and water pours into her mouth. Then for a few moments the water pools and slows. She rises coughing up water, gasping air, her feet dragging the bottom like an anchor trying to snag waterlogged wood or rock jut and as the current quickens again she sees her family running along the shore and she knows they are shouting her name though she cannot hear them and as the current turns her she hears the falls and knows there is nothing that will keep from it as the current quickens and quickens and another rock smashes against her knee but she hardly feels it as she snatches another breath and she feels the river fall and she falls with it as water whitens around her and she falls deep into the whiteness and she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and the water holds her there and she tells herself don't breathe but the need rises inside her beginning in the upper stomach then up through her chest and throat and as that need reaches her mouth her mouth and nose open and the lungs explode in pain and then the pain is gone as bright colors shatter around her like glass shards, and she remembers her sixth-grade science class, the gurgle of the aquarium at the back of the room, the smell of chalk dust that morning the teacher held a prism out the window so it might fill with color, and she has a final, beautiful thought - that she is now inside that prism and knows something even the teacher does not know, that the prism's colors are voices, voices that swirl around her head like a crown, and at that moment her arms and legs she did not even know were flailing cease and she becomes part of the river.”
― Ron Rash, quote from Nothing Gold Can Stay: Stories
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