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
Corrie Ten Boom quotes about
children father men
I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.
girl father differences
All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. 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.
people god-love
You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.
biblical years house
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.
jobs prayer heart
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.
christian joy world
What joy that the Bible tells us the great comfort that the best is yet to be. Our outlook goes beyond this world.
jesus people world
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.
life-changing spirit failing
The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
god way use
... God uses such seemingly insignificant ways to prepare us for the plan He has for our lives.
jesus dark passing-on
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love
christian god-has-a-plan christianity
The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.
god blow giving
God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.
jesus
Don't hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can't take it from you.
prayer rest-of-life vanishing
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.