Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
CORRIE TEN BOOMWorrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
More Corrie ten Boom Quotes
-
-
We must mirror God’s love in the midst of a world full of hatred. We are the mirrors of God’s love, so we may show Jesus by our lives.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Don’t hold onto anything so tightly that Jesus can’t take it from you.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Worries carry responsibilities that belong to God, not to you. Worry does not enable us to escape evil; it makes us unfit to cope with it when it comes.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to fault finding.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
I have experienced His presence in the deepest hell that man can create. I have really tested the promises of the Bible, and believe me, you can count on them.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
CORRIE TEN BOOM -
There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!
CORRIE TEN BOOM