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Forgiveness is not an emotion it is an act of the will.

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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Autobiographer
Resistance Fighter
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
Forgiveness
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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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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
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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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God raises the level of the impossible.
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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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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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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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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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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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How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
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God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, No fishing.
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If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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The best learning I had came from teaching.
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Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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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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