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


Corrie ten Boom

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CASPER TEN BOOM Where I used to think that this life would be good. And I would do things that I thought that I shou...
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BOB BERG Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, o...
JOHN B. SHEERIN Happiness depends upon ourselves.
ARISTOTLE They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Cor...
CONNIE ALLEN We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL ANDRUS We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and ou...
ETHEL PERCY ANDRUS Happiness is not in our circumstance but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, o...
JOHN B. SHEERIN Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the he...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
CORRIE TEN BOOM It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the sh...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Joy runs deeper than despair
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump of...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a powe...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)

“My life is but a weaving
Between my ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends...
CORRIE TEN BOOM We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when i...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in pu...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
CORRIE TEN BOOM when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Are you afraid to die? Remember that for a child of God, death is only a passing through to a wonder...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
CORRIE TEN BOOM We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us re...
CORRIE TEN BOOM You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. Y...
CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hinfallen ist nicht schlimm, aber liegen bleiben.
CORRIE TEN BOOM (on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murde...
CORRIE TEN BOOM And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?...
CORRIE TEN BOOM You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of Hi...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM At last we heard Father's footsteps winding up the stairs. It was the best moment in every day, when...
CORRIE TEN BOOM If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
CORRIE TEN BOOM One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a doub...
CORRIE TEN BOOM and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one s...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
CORRIE TEN BOOM No hatred
CORRIE TEN BOOM ...suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else so...
CORRIE TEN BOOM No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still
CORRIE TEN BOOM And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had...
CORRIE TEN BOOM How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amst...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to wor...
CORRIE TEN BOOM And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the expe...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
CORRIE TEN BOOM God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it u...
CORRIE TEN BOOM If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He some...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off....
CORRIE TEN BOOM Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Letting go is an inside job, something only we can do for ourselves.
SHARON SALZBERG Everyday isnt good, but there is something good in every day.
AUTHOR UNKNOWN Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
SOPHOCLES Live it simple, make it simple, and say it simple, the obvious key for happiness which life is all a...
NORAIN What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool?
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ...
THICH NHAT HANH Our happiness in this world depends on the affections we are able to inspire.
DUCHESS PRAZLIN The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.
SHARON SALZBERG This is a quality win for us. It's something that we need going into the Big Ten. It's something we ...
MAURICE AGER We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E.E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON Life is something that depends on what you do with it.
NOMAN QAYYUM Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity ...
THICH NHAT HANH The problem is that, partly because we are women, a large measure of our happiness depends on our re...
SANDRA TSING LOH I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispo...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposi...
MARTHA WASHINGTON The likelihood of your coming into contact with mosquitoes depends on your surroundings.
MICHAEL FINKELSTEIN Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don't even remember leaving open.
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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the he...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump of...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Let God's promises shine on your problems.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
CORRIE TEN BOOM If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Life is but a Weaving” (the Tapestry Poem)

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CORRIE TEN BOOM All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends...
CORRIE TEN BOOM We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when i...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
CORRIE TEN BOOM The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in pu...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
CORRIE TEN BOOM when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Are you afraid to die? Remember that for a child of God, death is only a passing through to a wonder...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
CORRIE TEN BOOM We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us re...
CORRIE TEN BOOM You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. Y...
CORRIE TEN BOOM It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Hinfallen ist nicht schlimm, aber liegen bleiben.
CORRIE TEN BOOM (on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murde...
CORRIE TEN BOOM And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?...
CORRIE TEN BOOM You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of Hi...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM At last we heard Father's footsteps winding up the stairs. It was the best moment in every day, when...
CORRIE TEN BOOM If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
CORRIE TEN BOOM One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a doub...
CORRIE TEN BOOM and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one s...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
CORRIE TEN BOOM No hatred
CORRIE TEN BOOM ...suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else so...
CORRIE TEN BOOM No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still
CORRIE TEN BOOM And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had...
CORRIE TEN BOOM How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amst...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to wor...
CORRIE TEN BOOM And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the expe...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
CORRIE TEN BOOM God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it u...
CORRIE TEN BOOM If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He some...
CORRIE TEN BOOM Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
CORRIE TEN BOOM Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died ...
CORRIE TEN BOOM When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off....
CORRIE TEN BOOM Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
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CORRIE BROWN She looks so beautiful. What a wonderful lady.
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