The Best Corrie Ten Boom quotes

Expect resistance but pray for miracles! — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

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

You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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. — Corrie Ten Boom

Your love in me is stronger than the hatred. — Corrie Ten Boom

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

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

We deal with God–who is Love. He isn’t a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is an ocean of Gods love available–there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious love–whatever the circumstances. — 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

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies. — 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

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

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

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 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

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

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