Corrie Ten Boom Quotes & Sayings

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! — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were
of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts. — Corrie Ten Boom

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people. — Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. — Corrie Ten Boom

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 — 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! — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry — Corrie Ten Boom

And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?"
He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.
Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said.
I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.
It's too heavy," I said.
Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. 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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference. — Corrie Ten Boom

Don't worry about what you do not understand ... Worry
about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not
live by. — Corrie Ten Boom

It was one thing to believe that such things were possible thousands of years ago, another to have it happen now, to us, this very day. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. — Corrie Ten Boom

corkscrew staircase squeezed — Corrie Ten Boom

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

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. — Corrie Ten Boom

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

God, make me willing to be made willing. — Corrie Ten Boom

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY. — Corrie Ten Boom

Expect resistance but pray for miracles! — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark. — Corrie Ten Boom

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. I — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding. — Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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 — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

A full ten years ago, way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen. The few who had read his paper had laughed. — Corrie Ten Boom

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic. — Corrie Ten Boom

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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!' — Corrie Ten Boom

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

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still — Corrie Ten Boom

And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in — Corrie Ten Boom

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. — Corrie Ten Boom

When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. — Corrie Ten Boom

We are born into God's kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning. — Corrie Ten Boom

Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory. — Corrie Ten Boom

It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant? — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Let God's promises shine on your problems. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. — Corrie Ten Boom

And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh — Corrie Ten Boom

God has plans - not problems - for our lives. — Corrie Ten Boom

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely ... — Corrie Ten Boom

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. — Corrie Ten Boom

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

.....joy runs deeper than despair. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

It was astonishing, really, the quality of life she was able to lead in that crippled body, and watching her during the three years of her paralysis, I made another discovery about love. 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 that shut it in. M — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

You have had to travel a long way to get here, to tell us about the Lord Jesus. Please thank your tribe that they have allowed you to come here. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. — Corrie Ten Boom

Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see. — Corrie Ten Boom

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