Corrie Ten Boom famous quotes

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Jesus #Believe #Joy

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Faith #Past #Giving

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

#Jesus #Confusing #Trying

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

#Trust #Faith #Future

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

#Patience #Spiritual #Dark

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

#Ability #Response

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

#Christian #Heart #Christian Inspirational

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

#Prayer #School #Ideas

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

#Inspirational #Motivational #Love Is

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christian #Prayer #Godly

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

#Prayer #Wings #Bird

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#God #Giving #Christian Inspirational

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Forgiveness #Keys #Doors

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

#Inspirational #Praying #Lord

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

#Christian #Men #Thinking

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

#World #His Love #Able

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

#Stress #Order #Anchors

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Faith #Believe #Impossible

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

#Running #Hope #Joy

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

#Inspirational #Prayer #Burden

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..
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Crowns #Embroidery #Sides

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

#Jesus #People #World

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

#Made #Willing

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

#Life #Age #Duration

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

#Love #Hurt #Pain

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

#Prisoner

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

#Faith #Godly #Christian Inspirational

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

#Worry #Live By

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

#Miracle #Use #Lessons

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

#Inspirational #Forgiveness #Heart

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

#Moving #Two #Worry

God does not have problems. Only plans,
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Doe #Problem #Plans

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

#Jesus #Peace #Generations

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

#Godly #Over You #Shoulders

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
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christian #Hurricanes #Quiet

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

#May #Matter #Lord

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

#Devil #Ears #Praying

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Faith #Women #Distance

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Too Much #Pushing #Praying

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christmas #Believe #Son

Love is the strongest force in the world.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Love Is #World #Force

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Faith #Inspiration #Darkness

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

#Easy #This Life

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

#Hurt #Hands #It Hurts

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

#Beach #Jesus #Ocean

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Christian #Wall #Together

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

#Christian #Enemy #Victory

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

#Problem #Introducing #Lord

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Enemy #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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Humility #Pride #Voice

A man is powerful on his knees.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Powerful #Men #Knees

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Life #School #Class

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Evil #Worry #Doe

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Lying #Faithfulness

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

#Christian #Jesus #Mirrors

Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Hatred #Stronger

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

#Hands #Sometimes #Enough

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

#Trying #Succeed #Failing

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Jesus #Helping #Foolish

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

#Jesus #Mad #Perfect

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

#Book #Strenght #Brain

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.'
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Flower #People #Giving

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Hurt #Healing #Keys

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

#Events #Unconscious

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

#Jesus #Healing #Men

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Needs #Christ

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

#Memories #Past #Keys

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Healing #Giving #Enemy

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

#Spiritual #Dark #Evil

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

#Christian #Fear #Worry

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

#Intercession #Discernment

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

#Children #Perspective #Perception

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

#Christian Inspirational #Heaven #Panic

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

#Inspirational #Hurt #Hands

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Inspirational #Father #Able

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

#Happiness #Surroundings

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

#Giving #Perfect #Way

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

#Want #Thank You Lord #Lord

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

#Wall #Love Is

The best learning I had came from teaching.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Teaching

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.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Evil #Worry #Sorrow

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

#Memories #Past #Keys

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Weather #Roots #New Day

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Understanding #Needs #Enough

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Devil #Busy

Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Sight #Holocaust #Body

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Being Strong #Get Well #Shoes

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

#Forgiveness #Letting Go #Country

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Heart #Mind #Tape

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Giving #Enemy #Command

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

#Wise #Running #Father

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

#Christian #Prayer #Laughing

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Faith #Fog

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

#Believe #Evil #Secret

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

#Prayer #People #Christian Inspirational

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

#Jesus #Pits #Moments

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.
-- Corrie Ten Boom

#Shining #Darkness #Clear