Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God. "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? . . . Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved

And even if it wasn't right—it wasn't so very wrong, was it? Not wrong like sadism and murder and the other monstrous evils we saw in Ravensbruck every day. Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one's own secret sins didn't matter.

When we determine in our hearts to be thankful—in all circumstances—we open the door to God's unexpected blessing and provision.

For that which is in your heart can never be taken from you. Then I told her of what I learned in Ravens Brook, of Betsey's vision, and that God's love still stands when all else has fallen. In the concentration camp they took all we had, even made us to stand naked for hours at a time without rest, but they could not take Jesus from our hearts. Ask Jesus to come into your life. He will give you riches no man can take away from you.

Lord, I give to You the way I feel about Karel, my thoughts about our future—oh, You know! Everything! Give me Your way of seeing Karel instead. Help me to love him that way. That much.

For that which is in your heart can never be taken from you.

And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.

The worst can happen, but the best remains.

Clouds, too, can give light if only the sun shines on them.

There were answers to this and all my hard questions—for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.