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
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If the Gospels were truly the pattern of God’s activity, then defeat was only the beginning.
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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.
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Expect resistance but pray for miracles!
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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.
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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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and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
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For I bring not a religion... but a Person, who loves people, who died for them on the cross. For Jesus died for the sins of the whole world and He will not that any one should perish. He understands every single individual.