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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.

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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Willingness
Abandon
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Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.
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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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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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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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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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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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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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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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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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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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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God does not have problems. Only plans.
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Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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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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Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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