Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna popularly known as “Corrie Ten Boom” was born April 15, 1892 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She was a Dutch Christian watchmaker and later a writer. Corrie ten Boom and her family helped Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II and, by all accounts, saved nearly 800 lives.
She was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Corrie Ten Boom started a rehabilitation center for concentration camp survivors as well as a global ministry to preach the power of forgiveness. She died on the 15th of April, 1983 in Placentia, California, United States.
Below, you will find a collection of popular Corrie Ten Boom quotes about life, Prayer, forgiveness, God, worry and love.
80 Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Life, Forgiveness & Worry
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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!”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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 strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Perhaps only when human effort had done it’s best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Surely there is no more wretched sight that the human body unloved and uncared for.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of the way things were–of hell and heaven, of how men act and how God acts.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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 Ten Boom Quotes
“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!” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“…..joy runs deeper than despair.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”― 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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.” ― 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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word. . . . Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ’s that made the difference.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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!” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!” “May I tell you the truth Lieutenant Rahms? The truth, Sir, is that 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 scripture I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains, but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes, a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or a Lieutenant.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“And suddenly I realized that this too was a message, a last wordless communication among neighbors. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me. I pressed a finger to the tiny crevice.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“My life is but a weaving, between my God and me, I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily, Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side. Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver’s hand, As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“And the reason the thoughts kept coming back to me was that I kept turning their sin over in my mind. And so I discovered another of God’s principles: We can trust God not only for our emotions but also for our thoughts. As I asked Him to renew my mind, He also took away my thoughts.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“The circle of white cotton told me that when we’re feeling poorest—when we’ve lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful—that’s when God says, You’re richer than you think.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Jesus Christ is able to untangle all the snarls in your soul, to banish all your complexes, and to transform even your fixed habit patterns, no matter how deeply they are etched in your subconscious.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…It’s something we make inside ourselves.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
“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.” ― Corrie Ten Boom Quotes