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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.

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.

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

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.

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

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

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

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.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

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

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

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

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

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

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.

Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

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.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

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.

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.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

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

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

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

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

God raises the level of the impossible.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

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

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

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

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.

I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next

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

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.

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

If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

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

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

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.