Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

Happiness is not dependent on happenings, but on relationships in the happenings.

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 the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel...

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't 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.

In this household," Father said, "God's people are always welcome.

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

The truth blazed like sunlight in the shadows of Barracks 28. The real sin I had been committing was not that of inching toward the center of a platoon because I was cold. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

It is not on our forgiveness any more than our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Somehow, out of his watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed and cared for eleven more children after his own four were grown.

And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His (Jesus). When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Yes, it is a high price, but it has been paid. It is wonderful to be able to surrender to Him, who bought us. With body, soul, and spirit. And to lose your life for Him. It means you gain your life.

There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still." "Only heaven will reveal the top side of God's tapestry." And, probably the most poignant and powerful of all, simply "Jesus is Victor.

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. …In the Bible I learned that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.