As Sure as the Dawn Quotes

“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“God's will isn't hidden away like the myths and philosophies and knowledge of the world. Jesus told us openly and daily what his will for us is. Love one another.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“She had to strive to make every thought obedient to the love of Christ whatever violent feelings churned within her. She had to take her every thought captive to the obedience of Christ and leave no room for anger and jealousy and thoughts of revenge.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“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, As Sure as the Dawn

“Spirit. And it will be that love,”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“A contentious woman was worse than a leaking roof.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“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 Sure as the Dawn

“Let me be a tool in your hands and not a slave to my weaknesses.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Gird up your loins with the truth God is revealing to you. Put on the breastplate of righteousness”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Only one god had done this. Hadassah’s God. Rizpah’s God. The God he had so confidently dismissed as being weak and ineffective had done the impossible.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“In fact”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“When he started to cry”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“she thought deeply”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Empty yourself. Obedience to God is seldom a matter of ease”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Of all the races I’ve faced in battle over my twenty-five years”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Both palms had been bleeding.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Yet her words continued to plague him. And he knew why.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“God lifts us up out of the mire”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“But fear is not of God. God is love. There is no fear in love”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“No”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“It would take God to overcome her trepidation where Atretes was concerned. It would take God to protect her from the forces she felt moving around him.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“You’ve given your life to Christ”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“and Jesus would gather them to him and bless them one by one. He told us unless we become like children”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“His calm assurance set her mind at ease. He was unafraid. God was in command”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Set aside your anger for the sake of your son. Think before you do anything.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“Pride is what has kept me alive.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn

“No. The world didn’t. I did.”
― Francine Rivers, As Sure as the Dawn