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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

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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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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God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
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No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
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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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We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
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There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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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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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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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God does not have problems. Only plans.
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
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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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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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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
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