Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
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Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
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God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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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.
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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.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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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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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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If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.
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I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.
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God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
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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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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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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If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
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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.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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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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Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.
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