Quotes about Trust
When you are covered by His wings, it can get pretty dark.
— Corrie Ten Boom
If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.
— Corrie Ten Boom
He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely...
— Corrie Ten Boom
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
and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.
— Corrie Ten Boom
His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside of it!
— Corrie Ten Boom
Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you. And I was satisfied. More than satisfied--wonderfully at peace. There were answers to mmy hard questions--for now, I was content to leave them in my father's keeping.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Because of something she heard in school, Corrie asked her father what "sex sin" was while the two of them were riding on a train together. The father asked the little girl to carry his bag off the train. When she admitted that she could not do so, he said he would not be much of a father to expect this of her. The load was too heavy. This was the case, he said, with some knowledge. She needed to trust her father to give her knowledge at the right time.
— Corrie Ten Boom
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 Ten Boom
Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Thank you," Betsie went on serenely, "for the fleas and for-" The fleas! This was too much. "Betsie, there's no way even God can make me grateful for a flea." "Give thanks in all circumstances," she quoted. "It doesn't say, 'in pleasant circumstances.' Fleas are part of this place where God has put us." And so we stood between piers of bunks and gave thanks for fleas. But this time I was sure Betsie was wrong.
— Corrie Ten Boom
My life is but a weaving, between my God and me, I do not choose the colors, He worketh steadily, Oftimes He weaveth sorrow, and I in foolish pride, Forget He sees the upper, and I the under side. Not till the loom is silent, and shuttles cease to fly, Will God unroll the canvas and explain the reason why. The dark threads are as needful in the skillful Weaver's hand, As the threads of gold and silver in the pattern He has planned. (Anonymous)
— Corrie Ten Boom