Corrie Ten Boom Quotes - Page 7

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 which shut it in.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.

I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next

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.

It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.

God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.

There is explosive power in virtue.

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

God has plans, not problems for our lives.

(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.

You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.

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.

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

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

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.

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.

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

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.