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WOW!! I loved this book. It made you seriously question the way you live your life and are you living it the way God wants you to. And are you showing his love and seeing how He loves each and every person in the world. I got so sucked into this book that I stayed up way to late wanting to finish it. And finish it I did!
This book is a beautifully haunting story of hardship and forgiveness. I unashamedly cried through it, and that is coming from someone who rarely cries while reading. I love historical novels and learning about World War II and this book is just another witness of the resilience of the human spirit and the strength of those going through incredible hardships. Her story of faith and forgiveness is something everyone should read.
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I read this book as a teen and now again as an adult. This is an amazing story of God’s sovereignty and power to help and guide us during our darkest trials. It is also a story with the powerful reminder that we need to continually look beyond ourselves and our difficulties and instead on what we can do to bring glory to God’s everlasting kingdom. Corrie is the author of this book, but it’s the story of her sister Betsy’s unwavering faith that convicted me the most this time through. I believe every Christian should read this story at least once. May it be an encouragement to each of us to be bold in our faith and unwavering during hardship.
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When the Nazi officer whispered, “I cannot bear the work that I must do here.” When Saint Betsie thanked God for the fleas. When she was slapped and told Corrie, “I feel so sorry for THEM.” When poor Father died alone. I am a Christian, and even I could t stand these things. I would’ve checked out.
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WOW!! I loved this book. It made you seriously question the way you live your life and are you living it the way God wants you to. And are you showing his love and seeing how He loves each and every person in the world. I got so sucked into this book that I stayed up way to late wanting to finish it. And finish it I did!
This is the story of one of the most admirable, faith-filled women I've ever read about. I first read it as a teenager, and it is very much worth reading again every few years.
Corrie ten Boom and her family were arrested and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp because they hid Jewish people in their home. She and her sister, Betsie, were able to minister to other prisoners with their prayers and a small Bible they were able to keep hidden from guards.
After she was released, Corrie traveled the world to tell others about her experiences and the power of God's forgiveness.
I recommend this inspiring and moving book to everyone.
Corrie ten Boom and her family were arrested and sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp because they hid Jewish people in their home. She and her sister, Betsie, were able to minister to other prisoners with their prayers and a small Bible they were able to keep hidden from guards.
After she was released, Corrie traveled the world to tell others about her experiences and the power of God's forgiveness.
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.
I recommend this inspiring and moving book to everyone.
Fabulous book. I saw the movie first, then read the book. Powerful.
When I was little, I read anything and everything, but my mom put the kibosh on Holocaust literature because she didn't want me to get nightmares. (Somehow a lot of other things slipped by her, including a horrifying young adult book that included a lynching that somehow had been misshelved in the children's department of the library--that one DID give me nightmares.) Then when I was older and had read far too much Holocaust literature, I decided I would take a break from it for several years. All that is to say that I never actually read The Hiding Place until now. My mom was probably right; I wouldn't give this to an eight-year-old. But this book is beautiful, and I'm so glad I finally read it. Literarily speaking, it's very well done, but Corrie's story is so heart-wrenching, honest, tragic, and exquisite that the book would shine even if it weren't well written. Still a hard book to read--I would listen while driving and would inevitably get to my destination with tears to wipe away--but so worth it. My husband's great-grandmother and other extended family members were in Ravensbrück, the same camp that Corrie and her sister were in, which made the story all the more real.