Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.

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Faith, Inspiration, Darkness

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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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Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.

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Happiness, Surroundings, Hiding Place

"The Hiding Place". Book by Corrie Ten Boom, John Sherrill and Elizabeth Sherrill, November 1971.

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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

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Faith, God, Christian

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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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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 traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

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Prayer, Fear, School

Corrie ten Boom, Judith Couchman (2003). “Anywhere He Leads Me”

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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

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Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

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Emotion

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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

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Devil, Busy, Ifs

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What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.

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God, Christian, Mistake

Corrie ten Boom (1974). “Tramp for the Lord: The Story that Begins Where The Hiding Place Ends”, p.118, CLC Publications

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Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry
about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not
live by.

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Worry, Live By

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