Casper Ten Boom Quotes

“Oh Father! Betsie! If I had known, would I have gone ahead? Could I have done the things I did?”

“Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill the love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or, Corrie, we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.”

“Somehow, out of the watch shop that never made money, he fed and dressed eleven more children after his own four were grown.”

“I did not know that he had put into my hands the secret that would open far darker rooms than this- places where there was not, on a human level, anything to love at all.”

“Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.”

″‘Those poor people,’ Father echoed. But to my surprise I saw that he was looking at the soldiers now forming into ranks to march away. ‘I pity the poor Germans, Corrie. They have touched the apple of God’s eye.‘”

“You say we could lose our lives for this child? I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.”

“When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need--just in time.”