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1 " 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 , The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
2 " Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. "
3 " When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds. "
― Corrie ten Boom
4 " Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. "
5 " Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. "
6 " In darkness God's truth shines most clear. "
7 " Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. "
8 " Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? "
9 " (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. "
10 " We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray. "
11 " If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. "
12 " 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. "
13 " when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus "
14 " 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! "
15 " 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. "
16 " Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. "
17 " Do you know what hurts so 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 that happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of use dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. "
18 " Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for. "
19 " We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. "
― Corrie ten Boom , Father Ten Boom, God's Man
20 " A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education. "
