Corrie Ten Boom Quotes - Page 3

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. 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 that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

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

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

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

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

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.'

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.

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

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

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

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

One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

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.

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

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

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

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.