Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Corrie Ten Boom (Dutch Jewish Humanist)

Cornelia “Corrie” ten Boom (1892–1983) was a Dutch Christian who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II and was imprisoned for it. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, describes the ordeal.

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To look around is to be distressed; to look within is to be depressed; to look up is to be blessed.
Corrie Ten Boom

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Worry, Fear

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Problems, Promises

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

Worry is like a rocking chair: it keeps you moving but doesn’t get you anywhere.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Worry

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Life and Living, Charity

Joy runs deeper than despair
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Joy, Excitement

It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Ability, One liners

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: The Future, Future

Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Worry

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Worry, Prayer

It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time. And suddenly it was all there
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Forgiveness

Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Christianity

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