Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
("The Hiding Place")
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Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.Corrie Ten Boom
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Corrie Ten Boom
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls-only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.
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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
Corrie Ten Boom
This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.
Corrie Ten Boom
It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
Corrie Ten Boom
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