"I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness.Â I donâ€™t believe that anymore.Â I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him.Â He knows how He wants us to use them."

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Source : Francine Rivers (2013). “Redeeming Love”, p.447, Lion Fiction

Francine Rivers

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“I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.”
“What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God - which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead - lasts forever. Because this event took place, there is no reason to despair, and even when we read the newspaper with all its confusing and frightening news, there is every reason to hope.”

Source : Karl Barth (2009). “Insights: Karl Barth's Reflections on the Life of Faith”, p.30, Westminster John Knox Press
“The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.”
“I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.”
“My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.”
“Extension brings space, space brings freedom, freedom brings precision. Precision is truth.”
“I can't take his genius any more.”

Source : "The Cigar That Fell in Love With a Pipe review - David Camus and Nick Abadzis revisit Welles and Hayworth" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2014.

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