Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

• (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

  Heart   Together   Tongue  

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Thankful   Father   Good Friend  

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• The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  God's Will  

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• 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  

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• 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

  Father   Dictator   Ends  

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• 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  

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.9, CLC Publications

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• 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  

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• 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  

  Corrie ten Boom (2008). “I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place”, p.63, Zondervan

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• 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  

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• The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian   Enemy   Victory  

  Corrie ten Boom (2009). “Not Good if Detached”, p.91, CLC Publications

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• 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  

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• 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  

  Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.21, Zondervan

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• Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational   Life   Motivational  

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• 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  

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.76, CLC Publications

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• 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  

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Forgiveness   Heart   People  

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.51, CLC Publications

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• 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.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus   Hands   Mastery  

  Corrie ten Boom (2012). “A Prisoner and Yet...”, p.88, CLC Publications

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• 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  

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• No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith   Inspiration   Darkness  

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• 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

  God   Faith   Jesus  

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus   Peace   Generations  

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer   Rest Of Life   Vanishing  

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.209, Chosen Books

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• 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  

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.57, CLC Publications

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• I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

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  Hands   I Have Learned   Gods Will  

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• 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  

  Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.31, Chosen Books

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• What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Prayer   Wings   Bird  

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• Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Jesus   Helping   Foolish  

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

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  Christian   Men   Thinking  

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Hurt   Hands   It Hurts  

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• 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

  Christian   Jesus   Confusing  

  Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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