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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.


Corrie Ten Boom

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CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
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“My life is but a weaving
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when i...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in pu...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
CORRIE TEN BOOM when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Are you afraid to die? Remember that for a child of God, death is only a passing through to a wonder...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
CORRIE TEN BOOM We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us re...
CORRIE TEN BOOM You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hinfallen ist nicht schlimm, aber liegen bleiben.
CORRIE TEN BOOM (on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murde...
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CORRIE TEN BOOM There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of Hi...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM At last we heard Father's footsteps winding up the stairs. It was the best moment in every day, when...
CORRIE TEN BOOM If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
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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...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
CORRIE TEN BOOM No hatred
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CORRIE TEN BOOM No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still
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CORRIE TEN BOOM How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to wor...
CORRIE TEN BOOM And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
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