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God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

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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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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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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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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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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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Children need the wisdom of their elders the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the whole armour of God, that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
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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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Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
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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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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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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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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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If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
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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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Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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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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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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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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