Daily Inspiration Quote by Corrie Ten Boom

God’s forgiveness gets rendered here not as a misty spiritual abstraction but as a hard policy with teeth: the sins are not filed away, they’re sunk. Corrie ten Boom’s joke lands because it borrows the language of petty human habit (going back, rummaging, retrieving evidence) and slams it against the absolute finality she’s claiming for grace. “Depths of the sea” isn’t poetic scenery; it’s a disposal site. The punchline - “No fishing” - is the barbed wire.

The intent is pastoral and tactical. Ten Boom isn’t merely comforting people who feel stained; she’s trying to break a reflex. Religious guilt has a perverse nostalgia: we replay failures to punish ourselves, to keep control, or to maintain a moral narrative where we’re never let off the hook. She reframes that compulsion as trespassing. If God has already dealt with it, going back to dredge it up isn’t humility; it’s defiance dressed as piety.

The subtext is also communal. “No fishing” reads like advice to onlookers as much as to the sinner: don’t resurrect someone else’s worst moment for sport, leverage, or gossip. Ten Boom, a Holocaust survivor who harbored Jews and later spoke publicly about forgiveness, knew what it meant to live with real, not metaphorical, reasons to keep accounts. The line’s wit is doing moral work: it makes mercy feel sturdy, not sentimental - and it warns that obsession with sin can become its own kind of addiction.