Quotes about Strength
I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.
- Francine Rivers
One person standing on the Rock can throw a lifeline to others drowning in the sea.
- Francine Rivers
I learned that courage is not something we can manufacture by our own efforts. But when we surrender wholeheartedly to God, he gives us the courage to face whatever comes. He gives us the words to speak when we are called to stand and voice our faith.
- Francine Rivers
Suffering brought endurance in order that one might be strengthened for whatever lay ahead.
- Francine Rivers
It broke her heart, but a good mother teaches her children to fly.
- Francine Rivers
Don't trust in your own strength. None of us is strong in him or herself. It's the Lord who upholds us.
- Francine Rivers
As for Leota, She had chosen to close her mind to the things she couldn't change and move forward. There were many good things in life to allow things beyond your control to destroy you.
- Francine Rivers
Whatever happens to me, the Lord is always with you.
- Francine Rivers
Lord God of heaven and earth, I beg You to give me the confidence of Joshua. Instill in me Your purpose. Do not let me weaken. You are God and there is no other!
- Francine Rivers
Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John's dear face she found infinite compassion, love, the glow of fierce conviction, the strength of true faith.
- Francine Rivers
A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ECCLESIASTES 4:12
- Francine Rivers
Michael had been something new to him, too. He was one of those rare men who lived what he believed, not once in a while, but every hour of every day, even when the going wasn't easy. 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