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The Hiding Place (1971) (edit title/settings)

by Corrie ten Boom (Author) (edit contributors)

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Corrie ten Boom was a woman admired the world over for her courage, her forgiveness, and her memorable faith. In World War II, she and her family risked their lives to help Jews escape the Nazis, and their reward was a trip to Hitler's concentration camps. But she survived and was released--as... read more

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  • “"There is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still."”
    Betsy ten Boom
  • “"Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able."”
    Corrie Ten Boom
  • “"Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here."”
    Corrie Ten Boom
  • “"This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."”
    Corrie Ten Boom
  • “"And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him."”
    Corrie Ten Boom
  • “"Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way."”
    Corrie Ten Boom
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  • And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world’s healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.
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  • 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.
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  • “But 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.”
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  • “Don’t say it, Corrie! There are no ‘ifs’ in God’s world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety—Oh Corrie, let us pray that we may always know it!”
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  • Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God’s power alone be free to work.
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  • 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.
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  • Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for a future that only He can see.”
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  • I had been thinking of the feeble-minded, and Betsie of their persecutors.
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  • They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here.” I
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  • If I had ever needed proof that I had no boldness or cleverness of my own, I had it now. Whatever bravery or skill I had ever shown were gifts of God—sheer loans from Him of the talent needed to do a job.
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First Sentence edit see section history

I jumped out of bed that morning with one question in my mind-sun or fog?

Table of Contents edit see section history

1. The One Hundredth Birthday Party
2. Full Table
3. Karel
4. The Watch Shop
5. Invasion
6. The Secret Room
7. Eusie
8. Storm Clouds Gather
9. The Raid
10. Schevingen
11. The Lieutenant
12. Vught
13. Ravensbruck
14. The Blue Sweather
16. The Three Visions

Series & Lists edit see section history

This book is in Never Again: Atrocities of the 20th Century. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Narrow Escapes. (community list)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Corrie ten Boom (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. John L. Sherrill (Author)
  2. Elizabeth Sherrill (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Chosen Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: November 1971
ISBN: 0-553-25669-6
Page Count: 241

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: D811.5 .T427 1971
  • Dewey: 940.53492092

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Great for adults or young adults.

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