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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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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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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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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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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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God does not have problems. Only plans.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
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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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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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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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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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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the whole armour of God, that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
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Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry
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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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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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