Quotes by Corrie Ten Boom

About Corrie Ten Boom:

Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She was imprisoned for her actions. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, describes the ordeal.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

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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.

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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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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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And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling c...

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

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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 par...

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In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

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Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Fathe...

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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.

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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.

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(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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And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own 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.

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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 ...

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

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

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Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

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Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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Author Bio

  • NameCorrie Ten Boom
  • DescriptionRighteous Among the Nations
  • BornApril 15, 1892
  • DiedApril 15, 1983
  • CountryNetherlands
  • ProfessionWriter; Autobiographer
  • AwardsRighteous Among The Nations