Francine Rivers Quotes

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Both gentleness and meekness are born of power, not weakness. There is a pseudo-gentlene ss that is effeminate, and there is a pseudo-meekness that is cowardly. But a Christian is to be gentle and meek because those are Godlike virtues... We should never be afraid, therefore, that the gentleness of the Spirit means weakness of character. It takes strength, God's strength, to be truly gentle.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.

Soul of fibre and heart of oak.

what I want you to be - I don't mean physically but morally: you are very well physically - is a firm fellow, a fine firm fellow, with a will of your own, with resolution. with determination. with strength of character that is not to be influenced except on good reason by anybody, or by anything. That's what I want you to be. That's what your father, & your mother might both have been

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

The opponent strikes you on your cheek, and you strike him on the heart by your amazing spiritual audacity in turning the other cheek. You wrest the offensive from him by refusing to take his weapons, by keeping your own, and by striking him in his conscience from a higher level. He hits you physically, and you hit him spiritually.

There is nothing as strong as tenderness, And nothing as tender as true strength.

I am going to give you such a weapon that the police and the army will not be able to stand against it. It is the weapon of the Prophet, but you are not aware of it. That weapon is patience and righteousness. No power on earth can stand against it.

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield...it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own.