“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.”

—  Corrie ten Boom, book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892–1983

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