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.

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

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

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

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.

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

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.