Corrie ten Boom Quotes

“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.”

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

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

“When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.”

“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.”

“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”

“Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.”

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way… God can give us the perfect way.”

“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.”

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

“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

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

“Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”

“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

“….. joy runs deeper than despair.”

“Some knowledge is too heavy… you cannot bear it… your Father will carry it until you are able.”

“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.”

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

“When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.”

“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.”

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

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings… It's something we make inside ourselves.”

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”

“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!”

“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.”

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”

“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.”

“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.”

“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.”

“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.”

“(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.”

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

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still”

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”

“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.”

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

“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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!”

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