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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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Autobiographer
Resistance Fighter
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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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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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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It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
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Worries carry responsibilitie s 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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We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives
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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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The best learning I had came from teaching.
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If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'
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... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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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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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
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A man is powerful on his knees.
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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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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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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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God has plans, not problems for our lives.
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and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
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