I have been talking to so many friends lately about books that we have been reading that are so thrilling and inspiring! There are so many incredible stories out there and I want to read them all. I realize that everyone's life is busy but if you are a reader like me it is such a breath of relaxation to be able to cuddle down with a cummfy blanket in your bed before going to sleep and escaping into a different world. I don't know about you but it helps my mind stop thinking about everything I have to do and relax for sleeping :)
I wanted a place to keep track of these books and the quotes that I love from them, so here it goes. I hope you enjoy the quotes and through them find some good books to add to your library. Also please feel free to comment and give me some of your favorite titles!!
1. The Hiding Place
By: Corrie ten Boom
The man that Corrie has fallen in love with rejected her and has fallen for someone else. Her heart is breaking and this is what her father tells her:
"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.
God loves Karel- even more than you do- and if you ask Him, He will five you His love for this man, a love nothing can prevent, nothing destroy. Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way, Corrie, God can give us the perfect way." (pg.47)
"It is wrong to base faith upon wishes. There will be war. The Germans will attack and we will fall." (pg. 62)
I love this because it is easy to have faith in things that make us happy, to only have home in them because we want them to happen. When it comes to things we do not want to happen it is easy to build a wall and ignore what truly will happen. When doing that it is more of a shock that we are not prepared for when it does occur. It is better to try and prevent it while also preparing for it.
This family was faced with so much hardship but they always kept faith in god.
"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." (pg.63)
A priest expresses: "No, we could loose our lives for that Jewish child!" Then Corrie's father replies by saying, "I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family." (pg.95)
"Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work." (pg. 116)
Corrie and her sister Betsie were prisoners in a camp. The workers at the camp treated them horribly.
Corrie being angry at these workers expressed her feeling to her sister. Instead of receiving the same feelings back her sister expressed love for these women guards:
"These young women...if people can be taught to to hate, they can be taught to love! We must find the way, you and I, no matter how long it takes..."
Corrie's thoughts, "I saw a grey uniform and a visored hat; Betsie saw a wounded human being. And I wondered, not for the first time, what sort of a person she was, this sister of mine... what kind of road she followed while I trudged beside her on the all-too-solid earth."
I love this lesson. It is our behavior we have in the circumstance that decides our happiness, not the situation.
"Joy runs Deeper than Despair." (pg. 211)
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