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.
CORRIE TEN BOOMHappiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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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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If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray. It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
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God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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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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If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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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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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
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We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives.
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