“I want you to love me. I want you to trust me enough to let me love you, and I want you to stay here with me so we can build a life together. That's what I want”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“...for some of us, one mile can be more to walk than thirty.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“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, quote from Redeeming Love
“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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Redeeming Love
“I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“I don't want to fall in love with you,' she said, pushing away.
'why not?'
'because you'll just end up using it against me.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“Though fallen low God raised her up”
― Francine Rivers, quote from 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, quote from Redeeming Love
“Just because you don’t believe in the Lord doesn’t mean his power isn’t working for you.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“Because, for some of us, one mile can be farther to walk than thirty.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“No, you won’t. And I won’t be enough for you, Amanda. I don’t want to be the center of your life. I want to be part of it. I want to be your husband, not your god. People can’t always be there for you, no matter how much they want to be. And that includes me.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
“singing has to come from the inside, and i don’t have anything left inside.’
‘really? How did that happen?’
‘it all just drained out.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from 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, quote from Redeeming Love
“If you love me as you claim to, then you love her as well. She’s part of me. Do you understand? She’s part of my flesh and my life. When you say things against her, you say them against me. When you cut her, you cut me. Do you understand?”
― Francine Rivers, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from 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, quote from Redeeming Love
“Though fallen low God raised her up An angel.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from 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, quote from Redeeming Love
“He was never angry when she made mistakes. He complimented and encouraged her. He shared his own mishaps with a sense of humor that made her less annoyed with her own incompetence. He gave her hope that she could learn, and pride when she did.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from Redeeming Love
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“The love of the sea folk is my strength. That was it. The answer she needed. It had been there all along. She heard Thalassa’s voice now: A ruler’s greatest power comes from her heart—from the love she bears her subjects, and the love they bear her. Vrăja’s: Nothing is more powerful than love. And Elena’s: Love’s the greatest magic of all.”
― Jennifer Donnelly, quote from Rogue Wave
“That, darling, is the only thing that counts for someone to see more in you than you ever imagined was there.”
― Arthur Japin, quote from In Lucia's Eyes
“Alec raised his eyebrows and looked very confused. "Wait. They don't mean it's okay, and that I don’t have to worry about it? Why would they say that if they don't mean it?" Nico shrugged. "I think it's some sort of mind trick. They use that sentence as an illusion that things between you are okay, but when you least expect it, they will strike like a cobra and wound your soul.”
― L.A. Casey, quote from Alec
“Feelings are never right or wrong,” she said after a moment. “They just are.”
― Diane Chamberlain, quote from Necessary Lies
“I emphasize the distinction between brackets and no brackets because it will affect your reading experience, if you will allow it. Brackets are exciting. Even though you are approaching Sappho in translation, that is no reason you should miss the drama of trying to read a papyrus torn in half or riddled with holes or smaller than a postage stamp--brackets imply a free space of imaginal adventure.”
― Sappho, quote from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
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