Quotes by "Corrie Ten Boom"

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

(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.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.