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When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

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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
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Committees
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Groups
Prayer
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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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You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace and lo...off he went.
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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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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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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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When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
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It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
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If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
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Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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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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There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
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Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
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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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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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