Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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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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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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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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When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.
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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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If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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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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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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Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry.
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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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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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God raises the level of the impossible.
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We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.