Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.

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.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

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.

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

No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still

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

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.

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. 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.

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.

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.

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

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.

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

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

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

He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...

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.

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.

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, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.

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

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

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!