Corrie ten Boom: Quotes about God

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“(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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

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