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“You can’t get your faith from your feeling or your truth from your experience.”
“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.”
― The Hiding Place
― The Hiding Place
“Why does it always have to be that way? Why do good men always have to sacrifice themselves for others?
Because they believe that the rest of us are worth it.”
― The Messenger
Because they believe that the rest of us are worth it.”
― The Messenger
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.”
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“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.”
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
― The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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