Corrie ten Boom
Dutch Christian writer and Holocaust survivor, 1892-1983
19 quotes.
Quotes by Corrie ten Boom
- Faith is blind—except upward.
- Faith is like radar that sees through the fog—the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
- Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
- Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
- Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
- Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.
- Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.
- If God sends us on stony paths, He provides strong shoes.
- Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
- Look around and be distressed. Look within and be depressed. Look at Jesus and be at rest.
- Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
- Prayer is a joy and a privilege, available to all of God's children. The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns — any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
- There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still.
- 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.
- Today I know that memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
- What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
- When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away your ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
- Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow—it empties today of its strength.
- 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.