Corrie Ten Boom
I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Jobs
You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.Collection: Jesus
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.Collection: Patterns
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.Collection: Prayer
You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.Collection: Humans
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.Collection: Jesus
In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.Collection: Lying
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.Collection: Encouragement
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.Collection: Children
We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.Collection: Father
There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.Collection: Ocean
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.Collection: Hurt
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.Collection: Hands
When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.Collection: Dark
Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple, you will remember that to get the bell ringing you have to tug awhile. Once it has begun to ring, you merely maintain the momentum. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.Collection: Forgiveness
Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestryCollection: Heaven
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.Collection: Bible
Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.Collection: Inspirational
Expect resistance but pray for miracles!Collection: Miracle
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.Collection: Jesus
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.Collection: Wall
My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.Collection: Thankful
What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.Collection: Christian
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.Collection: Giving
We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.Collection: Jesus
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.Collection: Children
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.Collection: Wall
Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.Collection: Believe
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.Collection: Heart
The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.Collection: Mistake
... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.Collection: Jesus
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.Collection: Christian
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.Collection: Life Changing
God does not have problems. Only plans.Collection: Doe
God raises the level of the impossible.Collection: Miracle
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.Collection: Forgiveness
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.Collection: Faith
... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.Collection: God
I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred.Collection: Hatred
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.Collection: Effort
For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Fire
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.Collection: Children
How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.Collection: Faces
There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!Collection: Safety
Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.Collection: May
A person is either a missionary or a mission field.Collection: Missionary
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.Collection: Doe