Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

If I go home today," he said evenly and clearly, "tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety...

Always when I say that I am not able, I get the same answer from the Lord. He says, "I know you can't. I have known it already a long time. I am glad now you know it for yourself for now you can let Me do it." "All right, Lord, You do it," I said. And surely the Lord did.

We rob the work of Jesus Christ of its efficacy, and we stand powerless before the adversary, because we doubt the integrity of the Word of God.

We had had many Jewish children over a night or several nights at the Beje and even the youngest had developed the uncanny silence of small hunted things.

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

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

Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, God can give us the perfect way.

Love is not soft as water is; it is solid as a rock on which the waves of hatred beat in vain.

I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland. "Oh Lord," I whispered, "listen to Betsie, not me, because I cannot pray for those men at all.

It was a fact. We knew it, we experienced it minute by minute—poor, hated, hungry. We are more than conquerors. Not "we shall be." We are! Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.

And I would know again that in darkness God's truth shines most clear.