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

“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

“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

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

“There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
― 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

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“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

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

“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.”
― 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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

“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

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

“When I try, I fail.
When I trust,
He succeeds.”
― Corrie ten Boom

“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”
― Corrie Ten Boom