Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
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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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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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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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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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Don’t worry about what you do not understand… Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.
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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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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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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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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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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
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