Corrie Ten Boom Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.”
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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.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.12, Chosen Books
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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.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications
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“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
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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.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
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“Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.”
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“I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”
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“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.8, Chosen Books
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“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
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“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
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“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
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“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
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“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
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“Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.”
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“Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.”
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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.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie ten Boom (2008). “I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place”, p.63, Zondervan
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“In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
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“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”
-- Corrie Ten BoomSource : Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company
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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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“Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..”
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“For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.”
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“God, make me willing to be made willing.”
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“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”
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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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“Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.”
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“Let God's promises shine on your problems.”
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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.”
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“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...”
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