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.
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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.
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One day as Father and I were returning from our walk we found the Grote Markt cordoned off by a double ring of police and soldiers. A truck was parked in front of the fish mart; into the back were climbing men, women, and children, all wearing the yellow star. . . . "Father! Those poor people!" I cried. . . . "Those poor people," Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the solders now forming into ranks to march away. "I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God's eye.
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
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Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance.
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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
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If Jesus were born one thousand times in Bethlehem and not in me, then I would still be lost.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
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You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.
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We are born into God’s kingdom when we ask the Lord Jesus to come into our lives. But this is only the beginning.