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Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She was imprisoned for her actions. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts, as well as her time spent in a concentration camp.



✵ 15. April 1892 – 15. April 1983
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Famous Corrie ten Boom Quotes

“If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”

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“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 book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

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Source: Clippings from My Notebook

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

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“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.”

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Corrie ten Boom Quotes about God

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

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom Quotes about love

“Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.”

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“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.”

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

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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“Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.”

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie ten Boom Quotes

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

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

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“….. joy runs deeper than despair.”

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

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

“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.”

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

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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.”

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“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!”

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“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 book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

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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

Source: Clippings from My Notebook

“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 book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

“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.”

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“(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.”

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

Corrie ten Boom book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

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

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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”

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“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 book The Hiding Place

Source: The Hiding Place

“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.”

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

Corrie ten Boom

Variant: There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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Variant: You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ 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.”

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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Source: Tramp for the Lord

“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.”

Corrie ten Boom

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

Corrie ten Boom

“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!”

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