Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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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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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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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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How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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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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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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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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Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
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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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When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
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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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If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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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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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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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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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
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God, make me willing to be made willing.