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.
CORRIE TEN BOOMGod 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.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
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The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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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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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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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 measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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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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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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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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It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
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