40 Famous Quotes from Corrie ten Boom on Forgiveness and Worry

Corrie ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch Christian watchmaker, writer, and Holocaust survivor.

During World War II, Corrie and her family helped nearly 800 Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust. Inspired by faith, the ten Booms have always helped those in need, so when the Germans invaded Netherlands, they have built a hidden room in Corrie’s bedroom. The hideout was very small (about two feet deep by eight feet long), but it could hold six or seven people.

After four years, they were discovered. Several members of the Booms, including Corrie, were arrested and sent to concentration camps. She was released nine months later due to a clerical error -- a miracle, as Corrie later called it.

After regaining her freedom, Corrie ten Boom reached and inspired millions of people with the message of the gospel. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place (1971), is a powerful autobiography that shares hope and teachings that continue to resonate.

The ten Boom home in Haarlem, Netherlands (also known as The Hiding Place), is now a museum.

Here Are 40 Inspirational Corrie ten Boom Quotes on Worry, Forgiveness and Prayer:

Corrie ten Boom quotes on worry

Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

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

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

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength -- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.

Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.

Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.

Corrie ten Boom quotes on forgiveness

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

Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him... Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness... And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on his. When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command, the love itself.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.

Corrie ten Boom quotes on prayer

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

Don’t bother to give God instructions, just report for duty.

God takes our sins -- the past, present, and future, and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says ‘NO FISHING ALLOWED.’

In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.

What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be…

If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you’ll be at rest.

Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees

Let God's promises shine on your problems.

Inspirational Corrie ten Boom quotes

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.

Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings… it’s something we make inside ourselves.

Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work he will give us to do.

If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

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

There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.

If God sends us on stony paths, he provides strong shoes.

Now, I know in my experience that Jesus’ light is stronger than the biggest darkness.

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

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

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of him.

You will find it is necessary to let things go, simply for the reason that they are too heavy.

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

Some knowledge is too heavy... you cannot bear it... your Father will carry it until you are able.

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability that counts.

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.