Quotes about Life
Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
— Florence Nightingale
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
He] looked up and imagined the hand of God flinging stars like shining dust across the heavens. No. He was wrong to think such pagan thoughts, for God had only to utter a word and it was done. Only man had He shaped with His hands, using the dust He created to form His most precious and amazing creation. Only man was molded and loved into being, the breath of life in his lungs given by God.
— Francine Rivers
What does the body matter if the soul is dead?
— Francine Rivers
Search all you will for retribution or meaning to your life, but until you find God, you live in vain.
— Francine Rivers
The veil had been wisp-thin between life and death. All his strength hadn't been enough to break free, but one soft word from Christ, and he was alive again.
— Francine Rivers
Who are you to say whether she is of use? She is alive! That is statement enough.
— Francine Rivers
The most ordinary things of life are extraordinary.
— Francine Rivers
Our work is to devote our own lives to pleasing God. It's that simple. We're to devote our efforts to learning to think as God thinks, to see ourselves and others through his eyes, to walk as he walked. That's our life's work.
— Francine Rivers
I believe we all serve someone in this life. For the first thirty-eight years of mine, I served myself. My conversion was not a highly emotional experience. It was a conscious, thought-out decision that changed my focus, my direction, my heart, my life.
— Francine Rivers
nobody is born a Christian? The war over a soul begins before a baby even draws breath.
— Francine Rivers
Hormonal changes permanently alter the breast's structure. And when a pregnancy is terminated through abortion, the process is interrupted, which leaves cells in a sate of transition. And they say cells in this state have a very high risk of becoming cancerous. So the woman's chances of developing breast cancer later in life my be greatly increased.
— Francine Rivers