Top 180 Corrie ten Boom Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Your love in me is stronger than the hatred.”

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102. “Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

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104. “We deal with God – who is Love. He isn’t a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to what He would like to do for us.”

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105. “The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.”

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106. “If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.”

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

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108. “My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.”

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109. “God has plans, not problems for our lives.”

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110. “Lord, we claim your strength to serve you, no matter what our circumstances may be. Amen.”

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111. “You are redeemed and you are also victorious, over your sins in Jesus.”

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112. “God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.”

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113. “When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.”

— Corrie ten Boom

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

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115. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

116. “What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.”

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117. “When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need – just in time.”

— Corrie ten Boom

118. “God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.”

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119. “Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain.”

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120. “Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.”

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121. “More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.”

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122. “What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.”

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123. “What feeds the soul matters as much as what feeds the body.”

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124. “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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125. “We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here.”

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126. “And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”

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127. “The circle of white cotton told me that when we’re feeling poorest – when we’ve lost a friend, when a dream has failed, when we seem to have nothing left in the world to make life beautiful – that’s when God says, You’re richer than you think.”

— Corrie ten Boom

128. “If you have an important decision to make, or even a small one, it is good to make your decision with the guidance of the Lord.”

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129. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

130. “To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.”

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131. “We must be so careful that we do not refuse the cross that the Lord has given us to carry. Let us remember that our present sufferings serve to prepare us for entering into the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ.”

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132. “Satan sometimes suggests that an offering will satisfy God, when in fact He is demanding our all.”

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

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134. “There is explosive power in virtue.”

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135. “How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.”

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136. “Life in Ravensbruck took place on two separate levels, mutually impossible. One, the observable, external life, grew every day more horrible. The other, the life we lived with God, grew daily better, truth upon truth, glory upon glory.”

— Corrie ten Boom

137. “Worries carry responsibilitie s that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.”

— Corrie ten Boom

138. “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.”

— Corrie ten Boom

139. “Whatever in our life is hardest to bear, love can transform into beauty.”

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140. “If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.”

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141. “On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never forsakes us or casts us off when we are bad, but rather helps us to gain the mastery over sin.”

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142. “And I’ve never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.”

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143. “Willem led Father up to the desk. The Gestapo chief leaned forward. “I’d like to send you home, old fellow,” he said. “I’ll take your word that you won’t cause any more trouble.” I could not see Father’s face, only the erect carriage of his shoulders and the halo of white hair above them. But I heard his answer. “If I go home today,” he said evenly and clearly, “tomorrow I will open my door again to any man in need who knocks.”

— Corrie ten Boom

144. “What I have to say is of no importance. Let me tell you what the Son of God had to say.”

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145. “How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.”

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146. “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 Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.”

— Corrie ten Boom

147. “Betsie saw where I was looking and laid a bird-thin hand over the whip mark. “Don’t look at it, Corrie. Look at Jesus only.” She drew away her hand: it was sticky with blood.”

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148. “Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.”

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149. “My job was simply to follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to Him in prayer.”

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150. “You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”

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