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.
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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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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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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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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God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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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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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.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.
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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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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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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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