The Sons of Encouragement Quotes

“God, who established the heavens, set the price for life, and it was the blood of the lamb.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“El Señor es lento para enojarse y está lleno de amor inagotable y perdona toda clase de pecado y rebelión; pero no absuelve al culpable. Él extiende los pecados de los padres sobre sus hijos; toda la familia se ve afectada, hasta los hijos de la tercera y la cuarta generación”.”
― Francine Rivers, Hombres de valor: Cinco hombres fieles que Dios usó para cambiar la eternidad: Five stories of faithful men who changed eternity

“The net of grace”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“then the cycle would repeat: faith for a generation, then complacency, soon followed by adultery as the people chased after false gods.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“The Lord had tested them to see if they would follow His commandments with single-minded determination. As long as Joshua, then Caleb, then Othniel lived, they had obeyed. But eventually, the people had grown tired of fighting and had given up trying to wipe the land clean. So what if a few enemies survived in caves and crags? God’s people had tried, hadn’t they? Surely God couldn’t expect more of them than that. It was too much work to hunt the stragglers down and finish them off. What harm to leave them alone? It was time to enjoy the crops, the flocks and herds, the fruit trees ready for harvest. It was time to savor the milk and honey!”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“and without faith, we have no hope.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“Perhaps he had already sensed God’s leading, and been troubled and unsure why.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“You must obey the Lord. Whatever He says, you must do. God gave us the Law to protect us, to teach us how to live righteously before Him. The battle belongs to the Lord. We are to be holy as He is holy!”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“You are my God! Let nothing stand between You and me. Sin crouches at the entrance of my heart waiting to devour me. And I must fight against it. Oh, God, how I must fight against the fire in my blood!”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“Yes, but this God could give us anything and everything we want. Why does He withhold a feast from heaven and instead make us grovel on our knees every morning for one day’s portion of manna?”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“Tribulation came from losing sight of Jesus and looking at the troubled, fallen world. Peter walked on water until he took his eyes off Jesus.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“Man planned, but God prevailed.”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas

“Word of the Lord,”
― Francine Rivers, Sons of Encouragement: Biblical Stories of Aaron, Caleb, Jonathan, Amos, and Silas