Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

this is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.

or when letters to Jewish suppliers in Germany came back marked "Address Unknown," we still managed to believe that it was primarily a German problem. "How long are they going to stand for it?" we said. "They won't put up with that man for long.

However, I reasoned, perhaps she had not experienced miracles before.

But under the words, a prayer was forming in my heart. Lord Jesus, I offer myself for Your people. In any way. Any place. Any time.

On my closed eyelids the sun glimmered and blazed. "It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?" There was a very long silence. "There is great darkness," he said at last. "I cannot bear the work I do here.

There are some, like me, who are called to live a single life," I said softly. "For them it is always easy for they are, by their nature, content. Others, like Ellen, are called to prepare for marriage which may come in later life. They, too, are blessed, for God is using the in-between years to teach them that marriage is not the answer to unhappiness. Happiness is found only in a balanced relationship with the Lord Jesus.

But I am in prison, dear lady from Haarlem, a prison stronger than this one.

What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body. In

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

to mind her well-known phrases: "There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still." "Only heaven will reveal the top side of God's tapestry." And, probably the most poignant and powerful of all, simply "Jesus is Victor.

Kapteyn appeared with Betsie in the dining room door. Her lips were swollen and puffy, a bruise was darkening on her cheek. She half fell into the chair next to mine. "Oh Betsie! He hurt you!" "Yes." She dabbed at the blood on her mouth. "I feel so sorry for him." Kapteyn whirled, his white face even paler. "Prisoners will remain silent!" he shrieked.

Adventure and anguish, horror and heaven were just around the corner, and we did not know.

But 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.

forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power

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...

Always when I say that I am not able, I get the same answer from the Lord. He says, "I know you can't. I have known it already a long time. I am glad now you know it for yourself for now you can let Me do it." "All right, Lord, You do it," I said. And surely the Lord did.

Corrie (as a child) and her father: "When you and I go to Amsterdam — when do I give you your ticket?" "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly, And our wise Father in heaven knows we're going to need things, too. Don't run 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.

We rob the work of Jesus Christ of its efficacy, and we stand powerless before the adversary, because we doubt the integrity of the Word of God.

We had had many Jewish children over a night or several nights at the Beje and even the youngest had developed the uncanny silence of small hunted things.

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

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

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

Love is not soft as water is; it is solid as a rock on which the waves of hatred beat in vain.

I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland. "Oh Lord," I whispered, "listen to Betsie, not me, because I cannot pray for those men at all.