Corrie Ten Boom Quotations | Page 2

Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry

Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....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. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.

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

Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by.

If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.

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

Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.

.....joy runs deeper than despair.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Love is the strongest force in the world.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. 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 it.

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.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

God does not have problems. Only plans,

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God

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

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.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you...

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

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

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Today I know that 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.

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

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

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

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown..

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.

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 - let us pray that we may always know it!

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. 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.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

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

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.

If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

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

Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!