Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Christmas
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
– Corrie Ten Boom
GodTrust | The Future
Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Faith
Let God’s promises shine on your problems.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Adversity
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Worry | Strength
Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Worry | Fear
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Life | Giving
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Unity
Discernment is God’s call to intercession, never to faultfinding.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Encouragement | Intercession | Discernment
Dont pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. A man is powerful on his knees.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer | Power
The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Satan | Enemies | Victory
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
Faith
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devil shouts for joy.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer | Fellowship | Satan
The best learning I had came from teaching.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Learning
Gather the riches of God’s promises. Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.
– Corrie Ten Boom
The Bible
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Forgiveness | The Heart
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Life | The Future
Prayerlessness is a sin.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer | Sin
Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn’t get you anywhere.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Worry
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Worry
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Faith | Adversity | Trust
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer
It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.
– Corrie Ten Boom
Faith
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
The Holy Spirit | Service
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand!
– Corrie Ten Boom
Discipline