Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
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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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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.
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And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
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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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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.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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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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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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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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We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
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If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
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Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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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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You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
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Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.