Corrie Ten Boom
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.Collection: Life
If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see the Lord, He sees you and me. Jesus said, 'And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age' (Matt. 28:20). When it’s necessary, He suddenly says, 'I’m still here!'Collection: Jesus
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.Collection: Inspirational
God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, "No fishing."Collection: Christian
Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.Collection: God
Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. 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.Collection: Wise
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.Collection: Prayer
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer groupCollection: Prayer
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.Collection: Humility
Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings... It's something we make inside ourselves.Collection: Happiness
When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.Collection: Trying
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.Collection: God
You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.Collection: Lying
Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....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. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives along with the command, the love itself.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Memories
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEARTCollection: Heart
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Love
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.Collection: Bible
There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.Collection: Christian Inspirational
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.'Collection: Flower
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.Collection: Hiding Place
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.Collection: Patience
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.Collection: Worry
There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.Collection: Love Is
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog – the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.Collection: Distance
You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.Collection: Ocean