Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
CORRIE TEN BOOMForgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.
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When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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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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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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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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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
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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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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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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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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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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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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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God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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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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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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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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Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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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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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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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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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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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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