Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings...It's something we make inside ourselves.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“.....joy runs deeper than despair.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
― Elie Wiesel

“One person of integrity can make a difference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Some stories are true that never happened.”
― Elie Weisel

“Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you will never understand the executioners.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Judges