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 BOOMWorry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God.
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I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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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 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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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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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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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
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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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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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Worries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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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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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.
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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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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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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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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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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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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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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