Corrie ten Boom Quotes

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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

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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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Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

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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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I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

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Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

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You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

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You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

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The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

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Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

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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 see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

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The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

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You can do more than praying after you have prayed. You can never do more than praying before you have prayed.

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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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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

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Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

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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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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

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There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

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If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know — to tell us that this too is in His hands.

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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

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If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.

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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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