I just recently read and fell in love with The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom. I read it in just two days, which is quite unheard of for this non-reader. I've never been unable to put a book down before. This incredible testimony of Corrie ten Boom and her family is forever etched on my soul. Their unrelenting love for all people and unwavering trust in Jesus has left me deeply encouraged. This book is a game changer; and if you haven't read it yet, you must.
Sharing just one quote would be insufficient, for I cannot pick a favorite. So, I will go ahead an share some of the ones that leaped off the page at me while reading.
"I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do." Corrie (pg. 31)
"Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way." Casper ten Boom, Corrie's father (pg. 60)
"Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work." Corrie (pg. 138)
"As my heath returned, I was able to use my eyes longer. I had been sustaining myself from my Scriptures a verse at a time; now, like a starving man, I gulped the entire Gospels at a reading, seeing whole the magnificent drama of salvation." Corrie, while in prison (pg. 163)
"The blacker the night around us grew, the brighter and truer and more beautiful burned the work of God." Corrie, while in a concentration camp (pg. 206)
"...there is no pit so deep the He is not deeper still." Corrie (pg. 227)
"There are no "ifs" in God's Kingdom...His timing is perfect. His will is out hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it." Corrie (pg. 234)
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