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

We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning. — Corrie Ten Boom

The life of a Christian is an education for higher service. — 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 uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

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

Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go. — Corrie Ten Boom

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose. — 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

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. — 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

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

The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray. — 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

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

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

If the enemy cannot make you BAD, he’ll make you BUSY. — Corrie Ten Boom

If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost. — Corrie Ten Boom

The best learning I had came from teaching. — Corrie Ten Boom

We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here. — Corrie Ten Boom

You are not reconciled to God if you are unreconciled with your fellow human beings. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. — Corrie Ten Boom

I have never met anybody who was sorry that they asked Jesus into their heart. — 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

God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART — 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

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

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

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. — 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

A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs. — 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

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

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