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
christian water dying
The world is deathly ill. It is dying. The Great Physician has already signed the death certificate. Yet, there is still a great work for Christians to do. They are to be streams of living water, channels of mercy to those who are still in the world. It is possible for them to do this because they are overcomers.
christian heart christian-inspirational
Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
christian men thinking
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
jesus believe joy
Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things.
christian prayer godly
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
hiding-place ability response
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
life school class
The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.
christian fear worry
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
humility pride voice
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
worry evil sorrow
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
prisoner settings setting
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
hands sometimes enough
If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.
jesus godly joy
when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus
jesus helping foolish
Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.