Faith & Spirit Quote by Corrie Ten Boom

Prayer gets framed here less as a polite request line to heaven and more as a border crossing: you step out of the cramped nation-state of your own limits and into a jurisdiction where the rules change. Corrie ten Boom’s language is doing pastoral triage. It doesn’t argue for God’s existence; it treats God’s power as a given and aims instead at the modern ache of powerlessness. The key move is the contrast between “not being able” and “everything is possible,” a psychological pivot from paralysis to agency - not because you suddenly can do more, but because you’re no longer the main character in the problem.

The subtext is shaped by her lived history: a Dutch Christian who helped hide Jews during the Holocaust, then survived Ravensbruck. In that light, “He specializes in the impossible” isn’t motivational poster optimism; it’s defiance. It’s a refusal to let catastrophe have the final word, even when the body is trapped and the future is confiscated. The “specializes” phrasing is quietly savvy: it makes omnipotence feel intimate, almost like a craftsman’s expertise rather than a remote cosmic attribute.

Then she tightens the claim with a two-sided reassurance: “Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.” That pairing matters. People in crisis tend to swing between two fears: the problem is too big to fix, or it’s too petty to bother anyone with. Ten Boom blocks both exits. The intent is not to explain suffering, but to keep you praying anyway.