Quotes by Corrie ten Boom

Do you know what hurts so very much? Its 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 so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

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.

In darkness Gods 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) Didnt 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 God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

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 we get on the train. Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when were going to need things, too. Dont run out 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.

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

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 nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor.Will you carry it off the train, Corrie? he said.I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning.Its too heavy, I said.Yes, he said, and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. Its the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.

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!

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Fathers friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Fathers secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didnt know they were there.

Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.

Do you know what hurts so much? Its 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 so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of use dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

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