Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom
Cornelia "Corrie" ten Boomwas a Dutch watchmaker and Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II. She was imprisoned for her actions. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, describes the ordeal...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth15 April 1892
children honor saws
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
god-has-a-plan problem plans
God has plans, not problems for our lives.
heart together tongue
(on forgiveness) Didn't he and I stand together before an all seeing God convicted of the same murder? For I had murdered him with my heart and my tongue.
wall taken love-is
Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street-- and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
strong jesus people
I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next
worry racing automobile
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
virtue explosives
There is explosive power in virtue.
jesus hands mastery
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.
heaven panic problem
God only make plans, no problems. In heaven, there is never panic.
patterns defeat ifs
If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
doe prison has-beens
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
jesus heart my-heart
I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he went.
forgiveness heart people
If we forgive other people, our hearts are made fit to receive forgiveness.
children father stronger
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.