Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
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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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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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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 is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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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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Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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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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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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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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Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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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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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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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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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.