The secret room built into Corrie’s bedroom behind a false wall became the hiding place and refuge for both Jews and those who were members of the resistance movement, sought out by the Gestapo and Dutch authorities. I think the rest of the world would agree.Ĭorrie Ten Boom Hid Jews behind Her BedroomĤ. According to Jewish custom, celebrating the same day for both birth and death is the unique sign of a very special individual. She moved to Placentia, California in 1977, and on her birthday in 1983, at the age of 91, she passed into Heaven’s gates. Corrie ten Boom was born in Haarlem, Netherlands on April 15, 1892, the youngest of 4 children. Her words and stories continue to have great relevance and impact in our world today.ġ0 Inspiring Facts and Stories You May Not Know about Corrie Ten Boom:ġ.
God brought incredible beauty and healing through her difficult experiences. They began providing "hiding places" for Jewish people and Dutch resistance fighters in their home, helping many to escape the Nazi Holocaust. But when World War II broke out, this Dutch Christian family knew they had to offer help to those being persecuted. Evidence that God still uses all we walk through in this world for greater purposes and good, more than we could possibly ever imagine.Ĭorrie spent the first 50 years of her life living peacefully with her father and sister above their watch shop in Haarlem, Holland. Her deep wisdom came with the cost of journeying through tremendous pain in this life, yet even today, she has left us with amazing nuggets of truth from her experiences. “In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.”Ģ8.“When He tells us to love our enemies He gives, along with the command, the love itself.”Ģ9.“No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.Corrie ten Boom was one of the most godly, inspiring individuals that many of us have ever read words from.
“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog.”Ģ7. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”Ģ6. God can give us the perfect way.”Ģ5.“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. The center of His will is our only safety – let us pray that we may always know it!”Ģ2.“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”Ģ3.“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”Ģ4.“Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way. And no places that are safer than other places. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”ġ6.“Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…It’s something we make inside ourselves.”ġ7.“Don’t bother to give God instructions just report for duty.”ġ8.“Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”ġ9.“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”Ģ0.“when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus”Ģ1.“There are no ‘if’s’ in God’s world. “ġ2.“In darkness God’s truth shines most clear.”ġ3.“Some knowledge is too heavy…you cannot bear it…your Father will carry it until you are able.”ġ4.“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”ġ5.“Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.”ħ.“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”Ĩ.“You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”ĩ.“There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.”ġ0.“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”ġ1.“What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”Ħ.“If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time.
3.“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”Ĥ.“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.”ĥ.“Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once.
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