287 Quotes by corrie ten boom

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

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 part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

We knew that in spite of daily mounting risks we had no choice but to move forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

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

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.

Many persons make the mistake of thinking they can measure the certainty of salvation by their feelings. It is the Word of God that is their foundation and therefore it is essential for the new convert in Christ to have a practical knowledge of the Bible. More than anyone else it is the new convert who will come under the fire of the enemy.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.