Quotes from Corrie Ten Boom

He hung naked on the cross. I had not known—I had not thought. . . . The paintings, the carved crucifixes showed at the least a scrap of cloth. But this, I suddenly knew, was the respect and reverence of the artist. But oh—at the time itself, on that other Friday morning—there had been no reverence. No more than I saw in the faces around us now.

and uncared for. Nor could I see the necessity for the complete undressing:

In 1959 Corrie was part of a group that visited Ravensbruck, which was then in East Germany, to honor Betsie and the 96,000 other women who died there. There Corrie learned that her own release had been part of a clerical error; one week later all women her age were taken to the gas chamber.

Jesus can turn loss into glory.

At last she pointed to a second tier in the center of a large block. To reach it we had to stand on the bottom level, haul ourselves up, and then crawl across three other straw-covered platforms to reach the one that we would share with—how many?

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died on the cross for sinners, not for respectable people.

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.

Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.