Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

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.

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.

We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

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.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

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

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.

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

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.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

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.

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!

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

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

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

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

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.

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

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

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

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.

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.

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

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.'

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

God raises the level of the impossible.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

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

(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.

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

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.

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

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

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

.....joy runs deeper than despair.