Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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It's not just the physical aspect of boxing, it's the whole fighter mentality that has been ingrained in me through the years as a competitive athlete. One of the hardest things you'll ever do is to box - to get into the ring and to face off with somebody whose whole goal is to knock you out, to hurt you, and to be able to fight back.
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The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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There is certainly enough money involved in this racing industry that jockeys and backside people should not have to be going through the hoops that they are going through to have adequate coverage.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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There’s a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.
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I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.
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Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting.
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Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease.
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When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.
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This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.
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I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
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If I profess with loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except that little point which the world and the Devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved, and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.
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The difference between an admirer and a follower still remains, no matter where you are. The admirer never makes any true sacrifices. He always plays it safe. Though in words, phrases, songs, he is inexhaustible about how highly he prizes Christ, he renounces nothing, gives up nothing, will not reconstruct his life, will not be what he admires, and will not let his life express what it is he supposedly admires.
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At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.
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Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
