Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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 darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.
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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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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
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How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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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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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
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When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
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Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.