Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. 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 strength or our brains but simply because He has made us. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands. If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans. When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus. It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts. Corrie ten Boomĭear Jesus.how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. Happiness isn't something that depends on our surroundings.It's something we make inside ourselves. In darkness God's truth shines most clear. There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still with Jesus, even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be. You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.įorgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it! -Corrie ten Boom There are no “ ifs” in God's world, and no places safer than any other places. Corrie ten Boomįaith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. Corrie ten Boomĭon't bother to give God instructions just report for duty. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. There are two things we can do when this happens. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. Corrie ten Boomĭo you know what hurts so very much? It's love. If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. Is prayer your wheel or your spare tire? -Corrie ten Boom What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. Corrie ten BoomĪny concerns too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and prefect preparation for the work He will give us to do. Today, I know that memories are not the key to the past, but to the future. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. 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. Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. I hope these quotes bless you as they have blessed me countless times through the years. Corrie's words changed my life and I read them often. I first read The Hiding Place when I was a teenager and it opened my heart to a new, and beautiful, and practical picture of a life of trust and faith in God's love. She died on her 91st birthday, April 15, 1983, in Placentia, California. After the war, Corrie told their story in the book The Hiding Place and toured the world sharing the power of God's love and grace.
#CORRIE TEN BOOM QUOTES OF ENCOURAGEMENT SERIES#
Corrie and Betsie were sent to a series of concentration camps, where Betsie also eventually died in the notorious Ravensbruck camp.
Frail and old, Casper died in prison days after his arrest. The Jews in their home at the time of the raid made it safely to the hiding place and were later assisted to freedom by others. Their home was raided and the entire family was arrested. Helping countless refugees to safety, they were eventually betrayed to the Nazis by a Dutch informant. As word spread, they became an active part of the Dutch underground who built a "hiding place" in their home. During World War II, she and her elderly watchmaker father, Casper, and sister, Betsie, opened their home to provide a refuge for their Jewish friends and neighbors. Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was born Apin Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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