Top 180 Corrie ten Boom Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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2. “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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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

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5. “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”

— Corrie ten Boom

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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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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8. “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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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.””

— Corrie ten Boom

12. “Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.”

— Corrie ten Boom

13. “The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.”

— Corrie ten Boom

14. “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.”

— Corrie ten Boom

15. “If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.”

— Corrie ten Boom

16. “I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands.”

— Corrie ten Boom

17. “In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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18. “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

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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

23. “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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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

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27. “Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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28. “There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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29. “If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.”

— Corrie ten Boom

30. “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

31. “Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

— Corrie ten Boom

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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

35. “Love is the strongest force in the world.”

— Corrie ten Boom

36. “What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”

— Corrie ten Boom

37. “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

38. “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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39. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

40. “A person is either a missionary or a mission field.”

— Corrie ten Boom

41. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

42. “Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.”

— Corrie ten Boom

43. “The best learning I had came from teaching.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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44. “Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

— Corrie ten Boom

45. “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”

— Corrie ten Boom

46. “If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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47. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

48. “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

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

— Corrie ten Boom

50. “If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.”

— Corrie ten Boom