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• Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Happiness, Surroundings, Hiding Place

  "The Hiding Place". Book by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill, November 1971.

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• When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

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  Trying, Succeed, Failing

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• Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Intercession, Discernment

  Corrie Ten Boom (1980). “This day is the Lord's”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Hurt, Hands

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• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

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  Night, The End Of The Day, Camels

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Emotion

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• 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 lives

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Jesus, Mirrors

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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

  Love, Hurt, Pain

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.60, Chosen Books

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• The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

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  Life, School, Class

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.9, CLC Publications

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• What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God, Christian, Mistake

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.118, CLC Publications

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• There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Mad, Perfect

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.234, Chosen Books

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• 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 God

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Hurricanes, Quiet

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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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus, Godly, Joy

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Bible, Faith, God

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• God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian, Sea, Fishing

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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.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, Women, Distance

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.12, CLC Publications

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer, Wings, Bird

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• 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.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Believe, Men, Promise

  Corrie Ten Boom (1977). “He sets the captive free”, G.R. Welch

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Hiding Place, Ability, Baby Boom

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• Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry
  about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not
  live by.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Worry, Live By

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• Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

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  Wise, Running, Father

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• Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

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  Evil, Worry, Doe

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• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

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  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

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  Humility, Pride, Voice

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• 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!

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  Prayer, Fear, School

  Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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