Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

This is God's work, and God's work will not be frustrated. But there is still much to be done.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

It is always helpful to us to fix our attention on the God-ward aspect of Christian work; to realise that the work of God does not mean so much man's work for God, as God's own work through man.

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

Remember, when God is executing His plan in our lives, He also designs and arranges events which continue to unfold until His purpose is revealed.

It is through our prayers, through our acts of faith that God works in partnership with us.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else’s place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country. That our leaders, our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan.

I always give all the glory to God, but I do not forget that He gave me the privilege of ministering from the first to a praying people. We had prayer meetings that moved our very souls, each one appeared determined to storm the Celestial City by the might of intercession.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Jesus intercedes for us each day. Let us pray: Lord, have mercy on me; intercede for me!

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

I think God isn't interested in intervening every time some little bad thing happens. God is interested in getting the message of good news and love and comfort and hope across through people like us, ordinary people, or extraordinary people like Bono.