Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
CORRIE TEN BOOMForgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
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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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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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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
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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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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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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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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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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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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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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
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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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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.
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