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 BOOM
CORRIE TEN BOOM
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Corrie ten Boom79 quotes“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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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom 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 BoomCorrie ten Boom 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.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside it.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom 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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John CalvinJohn Calvin The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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Elizabeth Cady StantonElizabeth Cady Stanton Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure – such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
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