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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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You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
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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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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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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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Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
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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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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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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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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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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 are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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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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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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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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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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