Corrie Ten Boom
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.Collection: Life
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.Collection: Sympathy
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.Collection: Forgiveness
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.Collection: Future
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.Collection: Future
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.Collection: God
Let God's promises shine on your problems.Collection: God
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.Collection: Trust
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.Collection: Fear
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.Collection: Moving
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.Collection: Christian Inspirational
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.Collection: World
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.Collection: Jesus
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.Collection: Prisoner
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.Collection: Stress
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.Collection: Life
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.Collection: Needs
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.Collection: Christian
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.Collection: Forgiveness
Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.Collection: Easy
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.Collection: Faith
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?Collection: Faith
There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.Collection: Inspirational
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.Collection: Devil
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of GodCollection: Christian
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.Collection: Four
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!Collection: Prayer
I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.Collection: Believe
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our livesCollection: Christian
It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.Collection: Healing
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.Collection: Wise
On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.Collection: Jesus
Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.Collection: Want
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!Collection: Hurt
I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.Collection: Purpose
Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.Collection: Offering
I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are nextCollection: Jesus
The best learning I had came from teaching.Collection: Teaching
God has plans, not problems for our lives.Collection: Problem
God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.Collection: Heaven
(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.Collection: Heart
God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.Collection: God
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.Collection: Girl
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.Collection: Children
There is explosive power in virtue.Collection: Virtue
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.Collection: Sight
The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.Collection: Christian