When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
CORRIE TEN BOOMYou know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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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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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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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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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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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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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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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.”—Each New Day
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Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.
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Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
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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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