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Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch Christian watchmaker and writer, renowned for helping many Jews escape the Holocaust during World War II. Her family's courageous actions saved countless lives while risking their own safety. She became an inspirational figure, sharing her message of forgiveness and faith around the world. Here are 64 of her quotes:

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy. (Corrie Ten Boom)

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

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What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

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

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It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

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Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

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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 of Jesus.

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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 God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

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A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. (Corrie Ten Boom)

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

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Love is the strongest force in the world.

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We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

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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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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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When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

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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 to forgive.

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Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

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(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.

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Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for. (Corrie Ten Boom)

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

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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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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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..... joy runs deeper than despair.

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Corrie Ten Boom

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Occupation: Dutch Author
Born: April 15, 1892
Died: April 15, 1983
Quotes count: 64
Wikipedia: Corrie Ten Boom

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