The Hiding Place Quotes

“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 (Jesus). When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“Corrie,” he began instead, “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 the love so that it stops hurting. Then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things, too. Don’t run 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.”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious preparation for the work He will give us to do. But I did not know that then.”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“Willem saw things. He knew what was going on in the world. Much that he saw was frightening. Ten years ago, he had written in his doctoral thesis, done in Germany, that a terrible evil was taking root in that land. Right at the university, he said, seeds were being planted of a contempt for human life such as the world had never seen. Those who read his paper had laughed. Now people were not laughing about Germany.”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”
― Corrie ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“I would hear him say: “Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin, and You know what makes this watch run. . .”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition

“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings, Corrie. It’s something we make inside ourselves.”
― Lonnie Hull Dupont, The Hiding Place: The Inspiring True Story of Faith and Forgiveness during World War II – Young Reader's Edition