Corrie ten Boom on prayer
Corrie ten Boom79 quotes“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
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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.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom 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 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.
Corrie ten BoomCorrie ten Boom 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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The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.
Teresa of AvilaTeresa of Avila This is our Lord’s will… that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
Dwight L. MoodyDwight L. Moody I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.
Julian of NorwichJulian of Norwich Believing prayer will lead to whole-hearted action.
Hudson TaylorHudson Taylor Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
Ignatius of LoyolaIgnatius of Loyola When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
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