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Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
Author
Autobiographer
Resistance Fighter
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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Walls
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The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
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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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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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Children need the wisdom of their elders the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
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Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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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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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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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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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
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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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And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
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And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion it is an act of the will.
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