Quote

The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.

Corrie Ten Boom

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
Author
Autobiographer
Resistance Fighter
Writer
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
Devil
Plans
Especially
Trembles
Laughing
Laughs
Together
Smiles
Make
Pray
Busy
Praying

More quotes by Corrie Ten Boom

Image
In this dark world, the Lord Jesus gave us the task of passing on His love
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
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
Image
When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
What a sad mistake we sometimes make when we think that God only cares about Christians.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Let God's promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Voltaire expected that within fifty years of his lifetime there would not be one Bible in the world. His house is now a distribution center for Bibles in many languages.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
In God's faithfulness lies eternal security.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
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 Boom
Image
and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
Corrie Ten Boom
Image
Only to those who have been in prison does freedom have such great meaning.
Corrie Ten Boom