“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
