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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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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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
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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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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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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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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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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.
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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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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.