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Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

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
Prison
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Freedom
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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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The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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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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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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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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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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God dealt with our whole situation on the cross there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'
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Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
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A man is powerful on his knees.
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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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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.
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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
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