Sharon > Sharon's Quotes

“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

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

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

“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

“Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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!”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

“Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“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

“Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "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 off the floor 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, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

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

“And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“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. ”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place

“You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa

“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather He will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa