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Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie Ten Boom's 210 reflections echo the quiet strength of a survivor who turned tragedy into hope. The collection provides a window into her compassionate worldview, making it a meaningful resource for those seeking inspiration from history.

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Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by.

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Notable works: The Hiding Place

About Corrie Ten Boom

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom was a Dutch watchmaker and later a Christian writer and public speaker, who worked with her father, Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jewish people escape from the Nazis during the Holocaust in World War II by hiding them in her home. They were caught, and she was arrested and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how she found and shared hope in God while she was imprisoned at the concentration camp.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Corrie Ten Boom

God raises the level of the impossible.

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God

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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.

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Failing

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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

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Emotion

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There is explosive power in virtue.

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Character

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God does not have problems. Only plans,

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Doe

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The life of a Christian is an education for higher service.

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Christian

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A man is powerful on his knees.

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Inspirational

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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

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Christian

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The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

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Class

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The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

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Enemy

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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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Beggar

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

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Fear

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I looked on Jesus and the dove of peace entered my heart. I looked at the dove of peace; and lo...off he…

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Dove

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

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Discernment

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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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Bethlehem

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If all things are possible with God, then all things are possible to him who believes in Him.

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All things

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The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down…

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Choices

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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each…

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Animal

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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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Child

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“I had believed the Bible always, but reading it now had nothing to do with belief. It was simply a description of…

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Belief

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“And so I discovered that it is not on our own forgiveness any more than on our own goodness that the world's…

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Forgiveness

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We deal with God - who is Love. He isn't a dictator. He is a loving Father. There is no end to…

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Deals

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“Show us. Show us how. It was said so mater of factly it took me a second to realize she was praying.…

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Life

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On the other hand, I have never before so learned to know the Lord Jesus as a tender, loving Friend, who never…

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Casts

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“To whomever she speaks, African students on the shores of Lake Victoria, farmers in a Cuban sugar field, prisoners in an English…

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Truth Learned

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Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart" "It is not…

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Ability

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I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to…

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Blessing to others

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God dealt with our whole situation on the cross; there is nothing left for you to settle. Just say to Him, 'Lord,…

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And love

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All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly…

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Afternoon

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God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given…

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Bible

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If it’s dark everywhere, you can become so discouraged. You might doubt whether light still exists. But even if you can’t see…

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Age

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Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man;…

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Angry

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“...suddenly I was afraid of what Father would say. Afraid he would say, "There'll be someone else soon," and that forever afterward…

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Fear

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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…

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Apples

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“It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the…

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Church service

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“And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look…

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Childhood

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Forgiveness to letting go of a bell rope. If you have ever seen a country church with a bell in the steeple,…

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Bells

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“Mama,' I said as I set the tray on the bed and sat down beside it, 'can't we do something for Tante…

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Last Days

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“At last we heard Father's footsteps winding up the stairs. It was the best moment in every day, when he came up…

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Every day

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“As we trooped back out through the shower room door, the S.S. men ran their hands over every prisoner, back, and sides.…

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Prisoner

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Corrie Ten Boom by topic

Love (32) Inspirational (32) Jesus (26) God (23) Lord (20) World (18) Christian (16) Time (15) Prayer (15) Ifs (15) Christian inspirational (15) Praying (13) People (13) Life (13) Forgiveness (13) God Will (12) Parenting (12) Fear (12) Faith (12) Worry (11) Father (11) Religion (10) Problem (10) Giving (10) Lord jesus (9)