When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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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Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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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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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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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.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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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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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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Love is the strongest force in the world.
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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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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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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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