Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

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

God raises the level of the impossible.

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.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

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.

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

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

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

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

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

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.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

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

There is explosive power in virtue.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

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

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.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

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

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

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

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.

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

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

(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.

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

Expect resistance but pray for miracles!

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.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.

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.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.