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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How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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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 uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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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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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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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
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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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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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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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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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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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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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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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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.