Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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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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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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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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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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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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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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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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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 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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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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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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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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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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Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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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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You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
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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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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.