If you look at the world, you’ll be distressed. If you look within, you’ll be depressed. If you look at God you’ll be at rest.

Corrie Ten Boom (Holocaust Survivor, 1892 – 1983)

Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Corrie Ten Boom (Holocaust Survivor, 1892 – 1983)

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts – people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know – my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

Corrie Ten Boom (Holocaust Survivor, 1892 – 1983)

The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.

Corrie Ten Boom (Holocaust Survivor, 1892 – 1983)

This is the only time in history when I get to fight for God. This is the only part of my eternal story when I am actually in the battle. Once I die, I’ll be in celebration mode in a glorified body in a whole different set of circumstances. But this is my limited window of opportunity, and I’m going to fight the good fight for all I’m worth.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)

True, God hates Alzheimer’s, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)

Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated – the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son – in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son’s cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world’s worst murder becomes the world’s only salvation.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)

Contentment … has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)

When I look at Jesus’ warm and intimate friendships, my heart fills with praise that Jesus was. . . a man. A man of flesh-and-blood reality. His heart felt the sting of sympathy. His eyes glowed with tenderness. His arms embraced. His lips smiled. His hands touched. Jesus was male! Jesus invites us to relate to him as the Son of Man. And because he is fully man, we can relate to Jesus with affection and love.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.

Joni Eareckson Tada (Evangelist, Author)