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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

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
Christian
Life
Service
Christianity
Higher
Education

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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.
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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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It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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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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Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
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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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Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
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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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You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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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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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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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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God, make me willing to be made willing.
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A man is powerful on his knees.
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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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