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Corrie ten Boom
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“When Satan cannot make you bad, he makes you busy.”
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“Faith is like radar which sees straight through the fog; the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”
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“You can do more than praying after you have prayed. You can never do more than praying before you have prayed.”
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“When God forgives He forgets. He buries our sins in the sea and puts a sign on the bank saying, 'No Fishing Allowed.'”
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“Worry is like a rocking chair — it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.”
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“A person is either a missionary or a mission field.”
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“When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.”
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“If a care is too small to be turned into a prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.”
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“Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.”
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“Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.”
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“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
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“To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.”
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“Worry doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.”
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“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”
Corrie ten Boom, Dutch resistance fighter, religious writer
(1892 - 1983)
Born: Cornelia ten Boom.