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Betsie ten Boom
Corrie’s father, the benevolent patriarch of the ten Boom family. Father is a highly skilled watchmaker whose shop is one of the oldest institutions in Haarlem. However, he’s best known in the city for his good nature and generosity with time and money: Father takes in and raises several foster children after his own are grown, and his shop barely makes a profit because he often forgets to charge his customers. Father inculcates in Corrie and her siblings the Christian principles which guide them throughout their lives; during her childhood, Corrie is always impressed with his thoughtful approach to philosophical dilemmas and steadfast reliance on God. He also emphasizes the importance of tolerance, which later leads the family to risk their lives sheltering Jews. Corrie recalls childhood visits to Father’s close friends in the Jewish community, with whom he bonds over a shared love of the Old Testament. By the time of the Nazi occupation, Father is very elderly, but he supports Corrie and Betsie as they turn the house into a shelter and raises morale by reading aloud from the Bible every night. Arrested alongside Corrie and the rest of the family, Father becomes ill and dies in a public hospital, without any of his children by his side.
Father / Casper ten Boom Quotes in The Hiding Place
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The One Hundredth Birthday Party
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Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.
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After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible form his traveling case; the wholesaler […] would snatch a book or scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interpreting, contradiction—reveling in each other’s company.
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Karel
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God loves Karel—even more than you do—and if you ask Him, He will give 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.
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Father / Casper ten Boom Quotes in The Hiding Place
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The One Hundredth Birthday Party
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Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father’s secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn’t know they were there.
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After the briefest possible discussion of business, Father would draw a small Bible form his traveling case; the wholesaler […] would snatch a book or scroll out of a drawer, clap a prayer cap onto his head; and the two of them would be off, arguing, comparing, interpreting, contradiction—reveling in each other’s company.
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Karel
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God loves Karel—even more than you do—and if you ask Him, He will give 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.
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