Francine Rivers

“Take a deep breath and release it slowly through your nose.

“Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.”

“Maybe you should stop looking and let God bring him to you.”

She slept deeply for the first time in days and dreamed of clear sparkling water and the bridge to Haven.

When she turned, Joshua felt like the air was sucked from his lungs. Abra!

'If God wills that I die, then I die. No. power on earth can change that."

None, Hadassah knew, not from the viewpoint of whether it would defile her. Itwasn't what she put in her mouth that would defile her, but what proceeded from her mouth, be the words unkind, slanderous, gossipful, boastful or blasphemous. Yet, she couldn't eat of this food because Enoch, who still lived beneath the Jewish law, abhorred it. He had saved her from the arena. He had brought her here to this beautiful house, to these people she had come to love. He was a brother of her race. To eat this would dishonor and insult him; she couldn't do it no matter how much her mouth watered for a small taste

God, why can't I cry out the truth from the rooftops? Why don't I have the courage to speak as my father did? I love these people, but I haven't the words to reach them. I'm afraid to out and say they are wrong and I'm right. Who am I How do I explain to them that I'm really the one who is they are the captives?

You think because you don't believe, he doesn't exist. You worship gods you create with your hands and imagination, and deny the Most High God who created you from dust and gave. you life. In the end, it won't matter whether you believe or not, Marcus. A higher law than man's does exist, and not your emperor nor all your legions nor all your worldly knowledge stand against--"

Lord, speak through me that they might hear your voice, she silently prayed.