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And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

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

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.

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!

Some knowledge is too heavy ... you cannot bear it ... your Father will carry it until you are able.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

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.

Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

There is explosive power in virtue.

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.

When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

If people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!

It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

It was one thing to believe that such things were possible thousands of years ago, another to have it happen now, to us, this very day.

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

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY.

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.

We can't solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.

God never measures the mind ... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. In

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

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

When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you.

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.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog
the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.

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

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh

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

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

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.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference. The

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

Dear Jesus ... how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

God raises the level of the impossible.

What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would

No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still

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.

Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.

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

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

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