Top 34 Corrie ten Boom Quotes



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

 

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

 

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

 

(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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

 

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

 

We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

A well-known psychologist once said, ‘When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.

 

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

 

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” Corrie ten Boom

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When he tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

 

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

 

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

 

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.

 

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.

 

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

 

Memories are the key not to the past but to the future.

 

Faith sees the invisible believes the unbelievable and receives the impossible.

 

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

 

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

 

The measure of a life after all is not its duration but its donation.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.

 

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn’t get you anywhere.

 

 

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