“(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.”

—  Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892–1983

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