Corrie ten Boom Quotes. Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands, in 1892, and grew up in a devoutly religious family. During World War II, she and her family harbored hundreds of Jews to protect them from arrest by Nazi authorities.
Betrayed by a fellow Dutch citizen, the entire family was imprisoned. Corrie survived and started a worldwide ministry and later told her story in a book entitled The Hiding Place [biography.com].
Famous Corrie ten Boom Quotes
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Joy runs deeper than despair.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
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.
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 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.
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.
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.
God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
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.’
We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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.
The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
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.
Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
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.
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.
Love is the strongest force in the world.
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.
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
I soon discovered that man’s importunity is God’s opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.
The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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.
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.
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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.
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.
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
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.
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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.
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
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 God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
God, make me willing to be made willing.
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.
Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… It’s something we make inside ourselves.
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 the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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.
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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.
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
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.
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.
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
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!
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.
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.
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
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.
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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!’
Don’t worry about what you do not understand… Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.
We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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.
What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
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.
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.
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.
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
Mama’s love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street– and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
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.
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
There is explosive power in virtue.
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.
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo…off he went.
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now, you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied–wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions–for now, I was content to leave them in my father’s keeping.
Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.
God raises the level of the impossible.
If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
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.
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.
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.
Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.
Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
The best learning I had came from teaching.
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
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.
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.
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.
You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.
You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.
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.
My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.
Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.
Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.
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.
Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.
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.
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.
A person is either a missionary or a mission field.
A man is powerful on his knees.
The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I’m sure we shall see the answers to the whys.
Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.
And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.
No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
These quotes are such an inspiration!