Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.


Corrie ten Boom

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
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Hinfallen ist nicht schlimm, aber liegen bleiben.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
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Let God's promises shine on your problems.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in pu...
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Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
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when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability ...
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving ...
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Are you afraid to die? Remember that for a child of God, death is only a passing through to a wonder...
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When I try, I fail.
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Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could ...
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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
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You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?...
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Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human ...
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At last we heard Father's footsteps winding up the stairs. It was the best moment in every day, when...
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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
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One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a doub...
CORRIE TEN BOOM
and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one s...
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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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No hatred
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...suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else so...
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No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still
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And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had...
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