Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.
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Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
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Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
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For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.
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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.
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In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.
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I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred.
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God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
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It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
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I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
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The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!