Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
CORRIE TEN BOOMThe devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
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It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.
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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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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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Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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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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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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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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We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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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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