Quotes by Corrie ten Boom

“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 that ...”

“Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”

“I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had travele...”

“When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.”

“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”

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

“Do you know what hurts so 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 that happens. We can kill the love s...”

“In darkness God's truth shines most clear.”

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”

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

“(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.”

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Gods work on ...”

“If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”

“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...”

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

“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.”

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

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. 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 ...”

“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 girlsonly to Father di...”