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A man is powerful on his knees.

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
Knees
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Powerful
Men

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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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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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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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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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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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Don't bother to give God instructions just report for duty.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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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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