Corrie ten Boom citations

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

“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…”

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

“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.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

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

“Love is the strongest force in the world.”

“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.”

“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.”

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