Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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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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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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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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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 God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
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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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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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Worry does not 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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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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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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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry.
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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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If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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God raises the level of the impossible.
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Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.