“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. Elizabeth” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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. . . .” ― Corrie ten Boom
“When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Old friend, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Three years after Mama’s death, I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“These young women. That girl back at the bunkers. 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. .” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“awe-inspiring deeds in the 21st century.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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 (Jesus). When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“It is not on our forgiveness any more than 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
“Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Ephesians 6 talks about God's armor. You will see that it is not yet a perfect victory, the final victory. We still need armor, but God's armor is so strong. When you read closely you will see that the Lord Jesus Himself is our armor. He is peace. He is truth. He is in you; you are in Him. It might be a battle, but this time it is in a blessed circle. It is the Devil attacking you; you are falling, but you are lifted up, forgiven, cleansed. That road takes you upward. It becomes increasingly victorious. The Lord Jesus will make you victorious, and you will be more than a conqueror. Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You lift us out of this vicious circle of sin and failure and that You have brought us into that wonderful blessed circle of forgiveness, redemption, and holiness. Hallelujah, what a Savior. Amen.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“That’s the S.D.’s favorite trick—feeling for a warm spot on a bed.” © Hans Poley/Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam Two Jewish women during an actual drill of the hiding place in 1943.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Conditions are always changing; therefore, I must not be dependent upon conditions. What matters supremely is my soul and my relationship to God.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Three times, he said, he had begged God to take away his weakness, whatever it was. And each time God had said, Rely on Me.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Some knowledge is too heavy . . . you cannot bear it . . . your Father will carry it until you are able.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one’s own secret sins didn’t matter.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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 the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. “God loves Karel—even more than you do—and if you ask Him, He will give you His love for this man, a love nothing can prevent, nothing destroy. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.” I” ― Corrie ten Boom
“That man, the watchmaker! He’s a Gestapo plant” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Father, what is sexsin?” He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case from the rack over our heads, and set it on the floor. “Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?” he said. I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning. “It’s too heavy,” I said. “Yes,” he said. “And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It’s the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. 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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Mama’s love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street—and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“But,” she said, “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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There is no pit so deep that God’s love is not deeper still.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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 this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father’s keeping. E” ― Corrie ten Boom
“We sat by deathbeds that became doorways of heaven. W” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There are no "ifs" in God's kingdom. I could hear her soft voice saying it. His timing is perfect. Hi8s will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Only heaven will reveal the top side of God’s tapestry.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“We knew that in spite of daily mounting risks we had no choice but to move 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 alone be free to work.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“We are the children of a king and have in our possession the key to our Father’s storehouse. All its treasures are ours to use at any moment. —Eva von Tiele-Winckler” ― Corrie ten Boom
“You have had to travel a long way to get here, to tell us about the Lord Jesus. Please thank your tribe that they have allowed you to come here.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Show us. Show us how. It was said so mater of factly it took me a second to realize she was praying. More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Love. How did one show it? How could God Himself show truth and love at the same time in a world like this? By dying. The answer stood out for me sharper and chillier than it ever had before that night: the shape of a Cross etched on the history of the world.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“What did he make of the news that President Wilson was sending American troops to France?” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Here in neutral Holland one sunlit June day followed another. Only a few people—like Willem—insisted that the war was Holland’s tragedy too.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“How should a Christian act when evil was in power?” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Someone’s elbow dug into my back, another woman’s feet were two inches from my face. How was it possible, packed so close, to be so utterly and miserably alone?” ― Corrie ten Boom
“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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“the dormitory, it reminded me most of an anthill. Some women were already asleep after the long workday, but most were stirring about, some waiting for a turn at the toilets, others picking lice off themselves and their neighbors.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“way back in 1927, Willem had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Apparently I looked strong enough for harder work; I was told to report to the Phillips factory.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father’s keeping.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh” ― Corrie ten Boom
“For that which is in your heart can never be taken from you.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Lord, I give to You the way I feel about Karel, my thoughts about our future—oh, You know! Everything! Give me Your way of seeing Karel instead. Help me to love him that way. That much.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There are no “ifs” in God’s kingdom. I could hear her soft voice saying it. 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” ― Corrie ten Boom
“For that which is in your heart can never be taken from you. Then I told her of what I learned in Ravens Brook, of Betsey's vision, and that God's love still stands when all else has fallen. In the concentration camp they took all we had, even made us to stand naked for hours at a time without rest, but they could not take Jesus from our hearts. Ask Jesus to come into your life. He will give you riches no man can take away from you.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“When we determine in our hearts to be thankful—in all circumstances—we open the door to God’s unexpected blessing and provision.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“There were now fourteen hundred quartered here with more arriving weekly as concentration camps in Poland, France, Belgium, Austria, as well as Holland were evacuated toward the center of Germany.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Corrie ten Boom: But I know He always keeps me in His sight. Nazi Lieutenant: You actually believe that? Corrie ten Boom: I believe that you are in His sight too Lieutenant. Nazi Lieutenant: Tell me Miss Ten Boom, how can you believe in a God that lets an old man die in prison; his body somewhere forgotten in a pauper’s grave? Corrie ten Boom: My father? Nazi Lieutenant: I understand he was taken ill after 10 days. He was taken to a hospital in the Hague. Unfortunately, there were no hospital beds available. He seemed to have died in a hallway; some failure of organization. Under such circumstances when no one claims the body, the body is difficult to trace. Corrie ten Boom: I know where my father is Lieutenant.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“It’s too heavy,” I said. “Yes,” he said. “And it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It’s the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. 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.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“corkscrew staircase squeezed” ― Corrie ten Boom
“And even if it wasn’t right—it wasn’t so very wrong, was it? Not wrong like sadism and murder and the other monstrous evils we saw in Ravensbruck every day. Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one’s own secret sins didn’t matter.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at” ― Corrie ten Boom
“The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Betsie, if I hadn’t heard you in the kitchen—” But Betsie put a finger on my mouth. “Don’t say it, Corrie! There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!” T” ― Corrie ten Boom,
“Eusie knocked the ashes out of his pipe and considered his plight out loud. He, who had always eaten kosher, he, the oldest son of an oldest son of a respected family, in fact, he Meyer Mossel Eusebius Smit, was seriously being asked to eat pork. Betsie placed a helping of sausage and potato before him. “Bon appetit.” The tantalizing odor reached our meat-starved palates. Eusie wet his lips with his tongue. “Of course,” he said, “there’s a provision for this in the Talmud.” He speared the meat with his fork, bit hungrily, and rolled his eyes heavenward in pure pleasure. “And I’m going to start hunting for it, too,” he said, “just as soon as dinner’s over.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“It was one thing to believe that such things were possible thousands of years ago, another to have it happen now, to us, this very day.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“It wasn't anything he did... but what he didn't do. No standing back to let the older man go first, no helping on with a coat, no picking up a dropped tool. It was hard to pin down. One Sunday when Father, Betsie, and I were having dinner at Hilversum I commented on what I had concluded was simple thoughtlessness. Willem shook his head. "It's very deliberate," he said. "It's because Christoffels is old. The old have no value to the State. They're also harder to train in the new ways of thinking. Germany is systematically teaching disrespect for old age... [T]he old and weak... are to be eliminated.” ― Corrie ten Boom
“Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known would” ― Corrie ten Boom
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