Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

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

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

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

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

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.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

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

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

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.

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

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

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

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

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.

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

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.

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

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.

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.

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

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

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

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.

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there.

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

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

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

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.

What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

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.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

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

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.