All Time Famous Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna “Corrie” ten Boom (15 April 1892[1] – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family’s efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.

Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

1. “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
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2. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
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3. “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.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

4. “Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

5. “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
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6. “When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.”
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7. “Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
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8. “You can never learn that Christ is all you need until Christ is all you have.”
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9. “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

10. “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”
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11. “God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, “No fishing.”
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12. “Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.”
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13. “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.”
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14. “The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.”
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15. “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”
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16. “Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go.”
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17. “In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”
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18. “I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.”
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19. “We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

20. “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.”
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21. “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
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22. “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.”
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23. “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
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24. “Faith is like radar that sees through the fog – the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”
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25. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.”
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26. “You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

27. “Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.”
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28. “There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”
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29. “If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.”
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30. “Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.”
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31. “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

32. “The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.”
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33. “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

34. “In God’s faithfulness lies eternal security.”
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35. “Love is the strongest force in the world.”
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36. “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.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

37. “What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
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38. “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
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39. “A person is either a missionary or a mission field.”
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40. “Four marks of true repentance are acknowledgment of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.”
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41. “No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains, and the very best is yet to be.”
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42. “As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.”
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43. “Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”
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44. “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
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45. “The best learning I had came from teaching.”
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46. “If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”
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47. “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!”
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48. “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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49. “Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
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50. “If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.”
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51. “You see, a potter can only mold the clay when it lies completely in his hand. It requires complete surrender.”
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52. “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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53. “The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.”
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54. “A man is powerful on his knees.”
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55. “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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56. “Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.”
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57. “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…”
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58. “God, make me willing to be made willing.”
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59. “The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.”
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60. “Only Heaven will reveal the top part of God’s tapestry.”
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61. “Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.”
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62. “In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.”
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63. “I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.”
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64. “When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.”
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65. “Expect resistance but pray for miracles!”
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66. “You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.”
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67. “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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68. “The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.”
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69. “When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group.”
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70. “He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”
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71. “Thank you, Lord, that You are the Conqueror and that You want to make us more than conquerors.”
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72. “The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.”
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73. “The amount of God’s love is unlimited, but we only receive as much as we use.”
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74. “Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child’s exuberance.”
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75. “Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.”
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76. “A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.”
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77. “Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.”
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78. “We can’t solve problems for others. We can introduce them to the Lord.”
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79. “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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80. “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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81. “Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.”
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82. “Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.”
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83. “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.”
— Corrie Ten Boom

84. “When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.”
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85. “Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.”
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86. “Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.”
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87. “Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one’s own secret sin didn’t matter.”
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88. “What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.”
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89. “If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.”
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90. “No matter how deep our darkness, he is deeper still.”
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91. “If God has shown us bad times ahead, it’s enough for me that He knows about them. That’s why He sometimes shows us things, you know – to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
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92. “There is an ocean of God’s love available-there is plenty for everyone. May God grant you never to doubt that victorious whatever the circumstances.”
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93. “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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94. “We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.”
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95. “In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love.”
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96. “Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.”
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97. “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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98. “Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”
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99. “The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.”
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100. “Jesus Christ is able to untangle all the snarls in your soul, to banish all your complexes, and to transform even your fixed habit patterns, no matter how deeply they are etched in your subconscious.”
— Corrie Ten Boom