Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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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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God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
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How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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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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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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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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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.
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If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
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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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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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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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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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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.