Corrie ten boom quotes

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.

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

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

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.

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

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

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.

Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.

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

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

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

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

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground.

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.

God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord, I cannot forgive and I will no longer try to do it; but I trust that You in me will do it. I can't forgive and love; but I trust that You will forgive and love in my place and that You will do these things in me.'

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

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.

The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

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

A person is either a missionary or a mission field.

I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred.

In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

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!

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."

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

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

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

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.

There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

God does not have problems. Only plans.

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.

The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.

If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.

Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our 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.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

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

God raises the level of the impossible.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.

If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown.

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance.

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

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

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

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

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

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.

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.

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

Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray.

Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

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

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.

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

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

... I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.

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

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

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

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

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.

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

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

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.

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

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.

God, make me willing to be made willing.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

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

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.