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Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

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Francine Rivers
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: January 1
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the United States of America
Francine Sandra Rivers
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Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.
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Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!
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I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.
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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.
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That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me.
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Jesus has given me eternal life in Him. Let them take my life here, but God holds me in the palm of His hand and no one can take Him from me.
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Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Beloved, surrender wholeheartedly to Jesus Christ, who loves you. As you drink from the deep well of Scripture, the Lord will refresh you and cleanse you, mold you and re-create you through His Living Word. For the Bible is the very breath of God, giving life eternal to those who seek Him.
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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.
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God would light the way. Faith would keep them on the right path.
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Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' Whatever happens is to His good purpose and for His glory. I am not afraid.
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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
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my love isn't a weapon, it's a lifeline, reach out and take hold, and don't let go!
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I gave up what I can't keep for something I can never lose.
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Julia looked back at Hadassah on the bloodstained sand. A great emptiness opened within her as she looked at the still form. Gone, too, was the salt that had kept her from completely corruption.
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Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.
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Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
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