Top 100 Corrie Quotes
#1. A fickle lover, sleep takes us as it will, when it wants, and how. Sensing her desperate need, however, it draws Corrie deeply into its embrace, somewhere between her tears and terror.
Kimberly Morgan
#2. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.
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#3. Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.
Rick Warren
#4. Corrie said she was glad that what they were doing - what they had just done - appeared not to bother him, in spite of his belief. She said that she herself had never had any time for God, because her father was enough to cope with.
Alice Munro
#5. You know, I was a kid when I went into 'Coronation Street' and I had an amazing time. I got some fantastic opportunities from Corrie and from 'Soapstar' and I'd never say they did anything other than help me.
Richard Fleeshman
#6. 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. Corrie Ten Boom
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#7. I tape over most of them with Corrie or Neighbours. Most of them are crap. They can f***ing make anyone look good. I signed Marco Boogers off a video. He was a good player but a nutter. They didn't show that on the video.
Harry Redknapp
#8. In the words of Corrie ten Boom, There is no pit too deep that God's grace isn't deeper still.
Mark Batterson
#9. We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here.
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#10. I've been lucky to have some great opportunities acting with some great people since leaving Corrie, I have certainly been kept busy since leaving the street!
Suranne Jones
#11. Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen - " But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!" T
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#12. Oh, Steven. I didn't expect your last-minute business to end so early. Why don't you go hang out with Corrie in the kitchen? She's eating supper. There's extra stroganoff on the stove. I'm just going to visit with Beth a little bit in the living room.
Chris Keniston
#13. as corrie was about to hang up, stacy said, "i hope he shoots at my car. i've got a couple of black talon rounds just itching to explore his inner psyche.
Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
#14. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.
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#15. Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence
Rebecca West
#16. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.
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#17. What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
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#18. I feel like I'm witnessing the systematic destruction of a people's ability to survive. It's horrifying.
Rachel Corrie
#19. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference. The
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#20. Faith is like radar that sees through the fog
the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
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#21. I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president.
Rachel Corrie
#22. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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#23. You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.
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#24. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.
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#25. Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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#28. What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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#29. Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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#30. Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
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#31. It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
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#32. 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.
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#34. Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
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#35. Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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#36. 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!
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#37. 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.
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#39. The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
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#40. 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.
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#41. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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#42. The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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#43. Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
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#44. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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#45. If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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#48. Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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#49. Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.
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#50. Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.
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#51. 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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#52. Of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at
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#54. He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely ...
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#55. Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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#56. And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.
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#57. Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
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#58. Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
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#59. If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
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#60. And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was.
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#61. There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
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#62. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh
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#63. Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
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#65. In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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#66. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!
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#67. 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.
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#68. You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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#69. I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
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#70. When people come up and give me a compliment ... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
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#71. I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
Rachel Corrie
#72. 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.
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#73. Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
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#74. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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#75. Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
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#76. If people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!
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#77. Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.
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#78. Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.
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#79. When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you.
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#80. 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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#81. The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.
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#82. Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
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#83. My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
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#84. Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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#85. It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?
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#86. Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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#87. Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
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#88. What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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#90. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in
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#92. 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.
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#93. Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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#94. 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.
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#95. I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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#96. God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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#97. Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.
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#99. Whenever I organize or participate in public protest I get really worried that it will just suck, be really small, embarrassing, and the media will laugh at me. Oftentimes, it is really small and most of the time the media laughs at us.
Rachel Corrie
#100. No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
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