Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.
CORRIE TEN BOOMThe measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!
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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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The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.
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This 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.
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Hold 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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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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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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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.
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Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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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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