Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

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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.

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Moving, Two, Worry

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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.

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Christian Inspirational, Looks, World

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

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Trust, Faith, God

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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.

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Trust, Encouraging, Uplifting

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

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World, His Love, Able

Corrie ten Boom (2008). “I Stand at the Door and Knock: Meditations by the Author of The Hiding Place”, p.63, Zondervan

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Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.

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Jesus, Believe, Joy

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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

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Prisoner, Settings, Setting

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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.

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Stress, Adversity, Order

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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

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Needs, Christ, Hiding Place

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Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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Life, Motivational, Faith

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something.

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Christian, Live Life, Training

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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.

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Forgiveness, Keys, Doors

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.

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Inspirational, Motivational, Love Is

Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.8, Chosen Books

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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

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Faith, God, Christian

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Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.

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Easy, This Life, Ifs

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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.

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Christian, Jesus, Confusing

Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.63, CLC Publications

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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.

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Faith, Past, Giving

Corrie ten Boom, Elizabeth Sherrill, John Sherrill (2006). “The Hiding Place”, p.12, Chosen Books

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

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God, Giving, Christian Inspirational

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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

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Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.

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Lying, Hands, Clay

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If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'

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Jesus, Dark, Light

Corrie Ten Boom, Charles R. Swindoll (2002). “Messages of God's Abundance”, p.115, Zondervan

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When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

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Flower, People, Giving

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Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

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Christian, Men, Thinking

Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you.

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Jesus, Waiting, Heaven

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Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

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Four, Repentance, Mark

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Born: April 15, 1892
Died: April 15, 1983
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