Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
CORRIE TEN BOOMJesus 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.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
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If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.
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Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, It’s something we make inside ourselves.
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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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Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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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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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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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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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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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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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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