287 Quotes by 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.

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

You can’t love God without loving the Jewish people.

Give thanks in all circumstances,’” she quoted. “It doesn’t say, ‘in pleasant circumstances.’ Fleas are part of this place where God has put us.” And so we stood between piers of bunks and gave thanks for fleas. But this time I was sure Betsie was wrong.

At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text, we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the lightbulb.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

Willem didn’t try to change people, just to serve them.

The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the word of God.

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.