Corrie Ten Boom's Quotes & Sayings

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

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

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. — Corrie Ten Boom

Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty. — Corrie Ten Boom

And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

November 27 Share your master's joy! Matthew 25:21 Each of us has dreams. And if we trust Christ with all our hearts, nothing can disable God from surpassing our dreams with His divine reality. The suicide of her husband could not keep God from surpassing Kay Arthur's dreams. Sudden paralysis could not keep God from surpassing Joni Eareckson Tada's dreams. A horrifying ordeal in a Nazi concentration camp could not keep God from surpassing Corrie ten Boom's dreams. God surpasses our dreams when we reach past our personal plans and agendas to grab the hand of Christ and walk the path He has chosen for us. — Beth Moore

As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard mercilessly beating a female prisoner. "What can we do for these people?" Corrie whispered. "Show them that love is greater," Betsie replied. In that moment, Corrie realized her sister's focus was on the prison guard, not the victim she was watching. Betsie saw the world through a different lens. She considered the actions of greatest moral gravity to be the ones we originate, not the ones we suffer. — Terryl L. Givens

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand! — Corrie Ten Boom

Do not worry about tomorrow - He is the God of tomorrow, He sees the end from the beginning. Do not worry about the necessities of life - He is there to supply and provide. A true victorious Christian is one who, in spite of worries, inner conflicts, and tensions, is confident that God is in control and will be victorious in the end. In reliance on the Holy Spirit, we will find that many of our physical and mental ailments will disappear along with many worries, inner conflicts, and tensions. Whatever our difficulties, whatever our circumstances, we must remember, as Corrie ten Boom used to say, "Jesus is victor!" Our Father and our God, I praise Your glorious name for sending Jesus Christ, who is the Victor eternal. He is the mighty One; He is the holy One; He is the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is the Master of my soul and the Guide for my life. And He shall reign forever and ever. Hallelujah! Praise the name of Jesus! In Him I pray. Amen. — Billy Graham

In the words of Corrie ten Boom, There is no pit too deep that God's grace isn't deeper still. — Mark Batterson

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. — 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

Oy runs deeper than despair. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

In darkness God's truth shines most clear. — 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

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

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things ... In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. — Corrie Ten Boom

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — 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

If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!" "May I tell you the truth Lieutenant Rahms? The truth, Sir, is that God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours. So different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. In the scripture I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains, but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes, a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or a Lieutenant. — Corrie Ten Boom

Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Betsie, if I hadn't heard you in the kitchen - " But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. "Don't say it, Corrie! There are no 'ifs' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!" T — 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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. — 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

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

If I tell you that it was my faith, you might say if you have to go through suffering, 'I don't have Corrie ten Boom's faith.' But if I tell you it was Jesus, then you can trust that He who helped me through will do the same for you. I have always believed it, but now I know from my own experience that His light is stronger than the deepest darkness. — Pamela Rosewell Moore

The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use. — 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

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 ... — Corrie Ten Boom

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

There is explosive power in virtue. — 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

(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. — 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

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. Corrie Ten Boom — Corrie Ten Boom

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

I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And — Corrie Ten Boom

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! — Corrie Ten Boom

Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference. The — Corrie Ten Boom

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God's activity, then defeat was only the beginning. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — 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

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here. — Corrie Ten Boom

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings ... It's something we make inside ourselves. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm. — Corrie Ten Boom

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb. — Corrie Ten Boom

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces. — 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

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. — 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

Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest. — Rick Warren

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

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

When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you. — Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have. — 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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

We can't solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

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

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

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