Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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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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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for 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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Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
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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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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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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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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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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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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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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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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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Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
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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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If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.
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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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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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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.