Perhaps, best known for her book, The Hiding Place, Corrie Ten Boom and her family were also known for their great love of the Jewish people. This manifested itself under the Nazi regime, during Word War II, when she and her family hid and smuggled Jews in Holland. Unfortunately, Corrie was caught and ended up in a concentration camp where she suffered greatly. She miraculously survived that experience and when she was released she went on to become an international inspirational speaker for Christ. Her gift of encouragement to Christians worldwide and her message of love and the forgiveness of sin through Christ made her an inspiration to millions. Below are some of her encouraging quotes that I pray will lift your spirit and bring peace to your soul.1
“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.”
“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
“There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”
“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. ”
“Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”
“When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.”
“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”
“God’s viewpoint is sometimes different from ours – so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things….In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us.”
“When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.”
“…joy runs deeper than despair.”
“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”
“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.”
“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.”
“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”
“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”
“His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don’t let me go mad by poking about outside of it!”
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.”
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” “It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.” “Let God’s promises shine on your problems.” “Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
“Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.”
“For I, too, had a hiding place when things were bad. Jesus was this place, the Rock cleft for me.”
1 All of the quotes below are from the following website:
Really needed to hear some of these quotes this morning. As always thank you for these devotionals. May God continue to bless you and your family.