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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
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Resistance Fighter
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
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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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God does not have problems. Only plans.
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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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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
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Forgiveness 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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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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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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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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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