110+ Corrie Ten Boom Quotes On Suffering, Prayer And Forgiveness

Corrie Ten Boom was a Dutch author, who wrote about her experiences during World War II. She was a Christian and a survivor of the Holocaust, and her book The Hiding Place is a renowned memoir of her time in a Nazi concentration camp. She is remembered as an inspiring figure who showed courage and faith in the face of adversity. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Corrie Ten Boom on suffering, prayer, forgiveness.

Top 10 Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

1. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
2. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
3. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.
4. Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
5. Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
6. Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
7. In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
8. 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.
9. Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.
10. Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Corrie Ten Boom Image Quotes

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. — Corrie Ten Boom

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Short Quotes

• The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
• It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
• You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
• If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
• Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
• A person is either a missionary or a mission field.
• Let God's promises shine on your problems.
• The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
• Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry
• Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Prayer

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. — Corrie Ten Boom

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy. — Corrie Ten Boom

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. — Corrie Ten Boom

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. — Corrie Ten Boom

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer. — Corrie Ten Boom

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic. — Corrie Ten Boom

A man is powerful on his knees. — Corrie Ten Boom

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Forgiveness

If you cannot find time to pray, ask for forgiveness. Ask to be cleansed of the sin of having no time to pray ... It could be that Satan is pushing you into too much work so that you cannot take time to pray. — Corrie Ten Boom

You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies. — Corrie Ten Boom

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive. — Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability that counts." "Let God's promises shine on your problems." "Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

(on forgiveness) Didn't 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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will. — Corrie Ten Boom

If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness. — Corrie Ten Boom

It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time. And suddenly it was all there — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Love

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still. — Corrie Ten Boom

Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life. — Corrie Ten Boom

Love is the strongest force in the world. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love — Corrie Ten Boom

The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use. — Corrie Ten Boom

When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself. — Corrie Ten Boom

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in. — Corrie Ten Boom

On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Faith

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. — Corrie Ten Boom

Although the threads of my life have often seemed knotted, I know, by faith, that on the other side of the embroidery there is a crown. — Corrie Ten Boom

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog. — Corrie Ten Boom

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be. — Corrie Ten Boom

In God's faithfulness lies eternal security. — Corrie Ten Boom

No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Peace

In the center of a hurricane there is absolute peace and quiet. There is no safer place than in the center of the will of God — Corrie Ten Boom

I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went. — Corrie Ten Boom

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Joy

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus — Corrie Ten Boom

Joy runs deeper than despair — Corrie Ten Boom

What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Inspiring

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead. — Corrie Ten Boom

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. — Corrie Ten Boom

Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty. — Corrie Ten Boom

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes. — Corrie Ten Boom

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able. — Corrie Ten Boom

We must mirror God's love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrrors of God's love, so we may show Jesus by our lives — Corrie Ten Boom

God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing." — Corrie Ten Boom

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy. — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes About Worry

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

Don't worry about what you do not understand... Worry about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not live by. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes. — Corrie Ten Boom

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but it does empty today of its strength!! — Corrie Ten Boom

Corrie Ten Boom Famous Quotes And Sayings

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. — Corrie Ten Boom

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. — Corrie Ten Boom

You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender. — Corrie Ten Boom

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's 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. — Corrie Ten Boom

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. — Corrie Ten Boom

Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. — Corrie Ten Boom

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do. — Corrie Ten Boom

The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers. — Corrie Ten Boom

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day — Corrie Ten Boom

I soon discovered that man's importunity is God's opportunity. he uses our problems as building materials for his miracles. I began to understand that this was my first lesson in learning to trust him completely, my first steps on the path to complete dependence on, and obedience to, his guidance. — Corrie Ten Boom

There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it. — Corrie Ten Boom

When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 - let us pray that we may always know it! — Corrie Ten Boom

I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them. — Corrie Ten Boom

Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves. — Corrie Ten Boom

You know, eternal life does not start when we go to heaven. It starts the moment you reach out to Jesus. He never turns His back on anyone. And He is waiting for you. — Corrie Ten Boom

When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.' — Corrie Ten Boom

God has plans, not problems for our lives. The life of a Christian is an education for a higher service. God is training you for something. — Corrie Ten Boom

If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands. — Corrie Ten Boom

We are up against the unseen power that controls this dark world and the spiritual agents are from the very headquarters of evil. Therefore, we must wear the "whole armour of God," that we may be able to resist evil in its day of power, and that even when we have fought to a standstill, we may still stand our ground. — Corrie Ten Boom

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 learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. — Corrie Ten Boom

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together. — Corrie Ten Boom

Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages. — Corrie Ten Boom

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him. — Corrie Ten Boom

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. — Corrie Ten Boom

If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord. — Corrie Ten Boom

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small. — Corrie Ten Boom

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. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping. — Corrie Ten Boom

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren. — Corrie Ten Boom

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

In darkness God's truth shines most clear. — Corrie Ten Boom

Perhaps only when human effort had done it's best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work. — Corrie Ten Boom

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces. — Corrie Ten Boom

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day. — Corrie Ten Boom

God has plans, not problems for our lives. — Corrie Ten Boom

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point. — Corrie Ten Boom

You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. — Corrie Ten Boom

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service. — Corrie Ten Boom

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's 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 Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. — Corrie Ten Boom

Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors. — Corrie Ten Boom

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men. — Corrie Ten Boom

I thank You, Jesus, that You brought into my heart God's love through the Holy Spirit. Thank You, Father, that Your love in me is stronger than my hatred. — Corrie Ten Boom

When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark. — Corrie Ten Boom

God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick. — Corrie Ten Boom

As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden. — Corrie Ten Boom

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most. — Corrie Ten Boom

Life Lessons by Corrie Ten Boom

1. Corrie Ten Boom taught us to never give up hope, no matter how difficult life may seem, as she demonstrated through her own experiences during the Holocaust.
2. She also showed us the power of forgiveness, even in the face of immense suffering, as she was able to forgive her captors and move on with her life.
3. Finally, Corrie Ten Boom showed us the importance of faith and relying on God's strength to get through life's toughest challenges.