Love is stronger. Though sometimes it's only in the hard places we can begin to comprehend the extent of that.
Favourite quotes:
"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."
"'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 this and all my hard questions - for now I was content to leave them in my father's keeping."
"''Do you know what hurts so much? It's love. 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...If you ask Him, He will give you His love...Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way.'
...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."
“If God has shown us bad times ahead, it's enough for me that He knows about them. That's why He sometimes shows us things, you know - to tell us that this too is in His hands.”
"There are no ifs in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The centre of His will is our only safety - O Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!"
"We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here."
Psalm 119:114
"You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word."
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