Author of quotes: Francine Rivers

It is better to have problems in relationships with people than in relationships with God.

Who can adequately lead people until he learns to follow God himself?

There will never be an end to human lusts!

God does not leave people, son. It's people who leave God.

If you want to truly honor and serve your father, tell him the truth. If you always tell the king the truth, he will have reason to believe you, even if he does not like your words.

Our task is not to change the lifestyle of these people. And not to fight against a pagan idol, as T tries to hammer into their heads the faith in Christ. Our work is to the whole life to please God. That's all. All their efforts we need to send to learn to think as God thinks, to see himself and others through His eyes, to walk as He walked. It is the work of all of our lives.

- But she saved your life! Or have you forgotten how Kai almost killed you? And then you send her to her death?
- She's a slave, mark. And when she protected me, she only did what I had to do. I have to thank her for that? Yes her life and not worth a penny ruptured.
Mark felt, as it grows so desperate that he could barely breathe.
Her life is everything to me! I love her! he shouted.

All in God's hands, Atret. He will provide.
- You will die.
- "Though He slay me; yet will I hope", she said. And smiled Atrato. - What is done is to do His will and for His glory. I'm not scared.

- You did something stupid, Hadassah. You have to do everything in order to save his life. - Similarly, did Atret and countless other people before him.
- For what I can never lose, I'm breaking up with the fact that will still not be able to keep.

Cheeks girl's tears flowed, but her eyes shone.
And at this point, Atret happened to me most striking, the most amazing. At the very moment when I declared Jesus Christ, the fear left me. Its severity was sleeping, as if it never happened.
- Did you never told about Jesus?
It was, but it was among the believers, among those who loves me. There I have not exposed themselves to any danger, spoke from the heart. But in the moment before Julia, before the other, I fully obeyed God's will. He is God, and none else. And tell them the truth I could not.
And now you'll die for it, gloomily said Atret.
- If we have something to die, Atret, then we have and makes life worth living...

Hadassah touched him, diverting him from his painful thoughts.
- Don't hate Julia for what she had done, Atret. She got lost in their ways.

- Vespasian - God, - said Julia. - Give it to God!
Hadassah stood silent.
- Well, what did I tell you? said quietly Vitellius Julia.
- She was going to say. I make her say it, Julia came to Hadassah and hit her. Talk. Tell me or you die!
- Believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God!
- A Christian! - someone whispered.

... Mark misunderstood her outburst.
- If we'll be making love right now, I never will not regret it, ' he said, squeezing the Hadassah to embrace, but will regret it you. Purity before marriage. Is not that reads one of the laws of your God? Religion never interested. Not interested in now. But it is important for you, and for this I'm willing to wait. For me the important thing is that I love you. And I don't want in our relationship was something that we regretted.

- No, Hadassah. We wrestle not with flesh and blood but with the forces of darkness.
- I can't fight with Satan, John. My faith is not strong enough for him.
- You don't need to deal with it. Protivostoit evil and be strong in the Lord, Hadassah, and the power of God power. He gave you weapons to fight. Truth, righteousness, the gospel to the world. Faith is your shield, the Word is your sword. Pray constantly in the Spirit of the Lord. And stay faithful to the Lord, that He might go ahead of you.