Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

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

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

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

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.

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

There is an ocean of Gods love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love-whatever the circumstances.

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.