Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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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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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.
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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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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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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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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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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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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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.