Top 100 Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
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#3. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference. The
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#4. Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
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#5. You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.
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#6. Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.
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#7. Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
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#8. It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.
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#10. Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word ... Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe.
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#11. Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
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#12. 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.
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#13. The amount of God's love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.
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#14. Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
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#15. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
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#16. If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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#17. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.
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#18. Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
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#19. Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Of Bloemendaal was said to be one of the most beautiful in Holland. I had never seen it, only the trees at
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#23. And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.
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#24. Don't bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.
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#25. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - Oh
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#26. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!
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#27. You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings.
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#28. I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.
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#29. A well-known psychologist once said, 'When a child reaches his third birthday, his parents will have given him half of all that they will ever be able to give him in the way of education.
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#30. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
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#31. 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.
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#32. If people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love!
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#33. Books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when you and I are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive.
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#34. Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution centre for Bibles in many languages.
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#35. When He tells you to love your enemies, He gives you the love that He demands from you.
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#36. Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
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#37. It says," I began slowly, "that a Light has come into this world, so that we need no longer walk in the dark. Is there darkness in your life, Lieutenant?
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#38. Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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#39. 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.
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#40. What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
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#42. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in
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#44. I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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#45. The Lord never makes a mistake. One day, when we are in heaven, I'm sure we shall see the answers to the whys.
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#47. Books do not age as you or I do, they will speak on to generations we will never see.
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#48. To Tanta Yanns the clothes in fashion when she was young represented God's final say on human apparel. All change since then came from the style book of the devil.
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#49. I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo ... off he went.
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#50. You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
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#51. And while from inside we would hear coughs and stirrings, there was never a rustle in the listeners out the door.
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#53. I became the first licensed woman watchmaker in Holland. And
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#54. What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.
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#55. when we've lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful - that's when God says, You're richer than you think. Elizabeth
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. You have had to travel a long way to get here, to tell us about the Lord Jesus. Please thank your tribe that they have allowed you to come here.
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#59. (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.
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#61. We are born into God's kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.
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#62. To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
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#63. You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.
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#65. A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
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#66. Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God's tapestry
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#67. You never so touch the ocean of God's love as when you forgive and love your enemies.
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#68. The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
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#69. We can't solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.
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#70. The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.
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#71. The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
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#72. But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?
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#73. 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.
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#74. Dear Jesus ... how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. It was strange that a society which hid the facts of sex from children made no effort to shield them from death.
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#78. When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
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#79. Corrie, if people can be taught to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes.
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#80. When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus
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#82. When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.
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#83. Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
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#84. For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.
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#85. Some knowledge is too heavy ... you cannot bear it ... your Father will carry it until you are able.
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#86. My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog
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#88. Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
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#89. 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.
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#90. Lord, You turn the wheels of the galaxies. You know what makes the planets spin and You know what makes this watch run. . . ." The
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#91. Don't worry about what you do not understand ... Worry
about what you do understand in the Bible, but do not
live by.
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#92. 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.
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#93. 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
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#94. If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
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#95. I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart.
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#96. 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.
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#97. More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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#99. Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.
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#100. If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he'll make you BUSY.
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