Corrie ten Boom - The Hiding Place (1971)

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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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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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

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

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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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If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

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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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Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

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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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The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

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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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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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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

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No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

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Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.

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This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

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There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of 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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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

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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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