Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!

God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.

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!

For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo ... off he went.

My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

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.

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..

For I bring not a religion ... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.

Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The

If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!" "May I tell you the truth Lieutenant Rahms? The truth, Sir, is that 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 scripture I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains, but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes, a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or a Lieutenant.

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.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

Dear Jesus, I thank You that we must come with empty hands. I thank You that You have done all -all- on the cross, and that all we need in life or death is to be sure of this.

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 human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

(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.

There is explosive power in virtue.

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

Germans frequently came to work under Father for a while, for his reputation reached even beyond Holland. So when this tall good-looking young man appeared with apprentice papers from a good firm in Berlin, Father hired him without hesitation. Otto told us proudly that he belonged to the Hitler Youth. Indeed it was a puzzle to us why he had come to Holland, for he found nothing but fault with Dutch people and products. "The world will see what Germans can do," he said often. His first morning at work he came upstairs for coffee and Bible reading with the other employees; after that he sat alone down in the shop. When we asked him why, he said that though he had not understood the Dutch words, he had seen that Father was reading from the Old Testament which, he informed us, was the Jews' "Book of Lies.

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.

Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

To Tanta Yanns the clothes in fashion when she was young represented God's final say on human apparel. All change since then came from the style book of the devil.

I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.

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. As long as you keep pulling, the bell keeps ringing. Forgiveness is letting go of the rope. It is just that simple. But when you do so, the bell keeps ringing. Momentum is still at work. However, if you keep your hands off the rope, the bell will begin to slow and eventually stop.

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.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.

Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in

Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him ... Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness ... And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

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. Corrie Ten Boom

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

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when we've lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful - that's when God says, You're richer than you think. Elizabeth

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

But more than that, I felt - no, not beautiful. Even on such a romantic day as this I could not persuade myself of that. I knew that my jaw was too square, my legs too long, my hands too large. But I earnestly believed - and all the books agreed - that I would look beautiful to the man who loved me.

There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still.

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.

Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.

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.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

The Gestapo chief leaned forward. I'd like to send you home, old fellow," he said. "I'll take your word that you won't cause any more trouble."

I could not see father's face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them. But I heard his answer.

"If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.

God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb.

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.

Of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at

I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY.

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

Conny and I stood in line, along with other people, outside Checkpoint Charlie, the gate for foreigners into East Berlin. Many of those in line were Dutch, and I saw they were being passed without difficulty. Everything seemed routine: Hand your passport to a guard, walk down the line, and receive your passport back with a stamp that allowed you to spend the one day in East Berlin. I hoped it would be as easy for us when it was our turn to be checked. Finally we were in front of the window. The guard looked at our passports, looked in a book and then turned and said something to another man behind him. "Is there a problem?" I asked the man. He turned and gave me a stern look. "Come with

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.

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 ...

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen - " But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!" T

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Betsie,' I whispered, "what can we do for these people? Afterward I mean. Can't we make a home for them and care for them and love them?'
'Corrie, I pray every day that we will be allowed to do this! To show them that love is greater!'
And it wasn't until I was gathering twigs later in the morning that I realized that I had been thinking of the feeble-minded, and Betsie of their persecutors.

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

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.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. In

Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.