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.
CORRIE TEN BOOMIf 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.
CORRIE TEN BOOMTrying 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 BOOMWorry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
CORRIE TEN BOOMAs 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.
CORRIE TEN BOOMIt is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOMHold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
CORRIE TEN BOOMIf the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
CORRIE TEN BOOMThe first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
CORRIE TEN BOOMForgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
CORRIE TEN BOOMGod has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
CORRIE TEN BOOMDon’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
CORRIE TEN BOOMThis 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 BOOMWhen 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.’
CORRIE TEN BOOMWe can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
CORRIE TEN BOOMJesus 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 BOOMGod buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”
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