Corrie ten Boom: Trending quotes

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

“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.”

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

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

“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, 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.”

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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!”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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