Francine Rivers Quotes

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

You will never forgive anyone more than God has already forgiven you.

You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins. God is there for us. He loves us. He wants us to turn it over to Him.

'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.

I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn't believe and doesn't seek the faith. Premise that - and it's the fundamental thing - the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn't believe in God lies in obeying one's conscience.

Our God is a forgiving God.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

Mercy is what moves us toward God, while justice makes us tremble in his sight.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Jesus says that those who live by God's forgiveness must imitate it. A person whose only hope is that God will not hold his faults against him forfeits his right to hold others' faults against them.

I've always been bad. Probably I shall be bad again, punished again. But the worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. ... Or it may be a private bargain between me and God, that if I give up this one thing I want so much, however bad I am, He won't quite despair of me in the end.

God's kindness is intended to lead you to repentance.

Our hearts are continuously rebellious. Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way." If this goes on day after day after day, year after year, month after month, it would understandable for God to say, "I've given you ten trillion tries. You're finished." But it's not. So in that sense, His grace is always surprising, never ceases to be amazing and His mercy is remarkably outrageous.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin

Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.