155 Quotes by Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom was a remarkable Dutch Christian woman who, along with her family, played a heroic role in rescuing Jews during the Holocaust. During World War II, the Ten Boom family operated a watchmaking shop in the Netherlands, which served as a cover for their clandestine efforts to shelter Jews and members of the Dutch resistance from Nazi persecution. Unfortunately, the family was eventually discovered, and they were arrested by the Gestapo. Corrie and her sister, Betsie, were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Despite the unimaginable horrors they faced, they remained steadfast in their faith and continued to provide hope and comfort to their fellow prisoners.
Tragically, Betsie passed away in the camp, but Corrie survived and was eventually released. After the war, Corrie Ten Boom devoted her life to sharing her experiences and spreading a message of forgiveness and reconciliation. She authored the book "The Hiding Place," which became a bestseller and inspired many with its powerful story of resilience and compassion. Corrie Ten Boom's unwavering faith and commitment to helping others have left an indelible mark on history, reminding us of the strength of the human spirit and the importance of standing up against injustice.
Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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.
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.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
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.
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.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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.
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
"Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by."
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
"Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world.
The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son.
The only requirement is to believe in Him.
The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life."
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.
There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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."
We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
God, make me willing to be made willing.
No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.
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.
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus
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.
A person is either a missionary or a mission field.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
Love is the strongest force in the world.
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.
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.
The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love
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.
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
God does not have problems. Only plans.
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way. God can give us the perfect way.
You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too.
Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
Joy runs deeper than despair.
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry
Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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.
When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.
Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
A man is powerful on his knees.
When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.
Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.
We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
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.
God raises the level of the impossible.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
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.
Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.
My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
God has plans, not problems for our lives.
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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.
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.
The best learning I had came from teaching.
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
There is explosive power in virtue.
The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.
God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.
Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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