Larry Loftis > Quotes

“He asked her how she felt about the Germans, and she said, “I hate them. I mean that I hate Nazis. For the Germans, oddly enough, I have pity.” “I thought you might separate Germans and Nazis. It was not the Nazis but the Germans who killed your father.” Odette blinked. Jepson had done his homework. She looked at the captain. “Yes, but they were driven then as they are driven now. I think the Germans are very obedient and very gullible. Their tragedy—and Europe’s—is that they gladly allow themselves to be hoodwinked into believing evil to be good.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“She was now ready. Diarrhea pills, speed, sleep dope, lethal pill, and beauty aid. Bring on the Germans.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

“Anti-Semitism has repercussions which will affect the whole world.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

“1 Thessalonians 5:14–18: “Encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone. Make sure that nobody pays back wrong for wrong, but always try to be kind to each other and to everyone else. Be joyful always, pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom

“In the evenings when it’s dark, I often see long lines of good, innocent people, accompanied by crying children, walking on and on, ordered about by a handful of men who bully and beat them until they nearly drop dead. No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies and pregnant women—all are marched to their death.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

“be sharp”
― Larry Loftis, The Princess Spy

“F Section’s biggest recruiting hurdle was the language; few native-born Britons could speak French without an accent. As a result, anyone born and raised in France who happened to be in England at the time—like Odette—was a jewel not to be missed;”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“losing a tag,”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“Because I had lived so close to death,” Corrie remembered, “looking it in the face day after day, I often felt like a stranger among my own people—many of whom looked upon money, honor of men, and success as the important issues of life. Standing in front of a crematorium, knowing that any day could be your day, gives one a different perspective.”
The words of an old German saying came to her mind again and again:
“What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom - Library Edition

“The battle against national socialism was not just a battle with arms,” he explained, “it was ideological, a religious battle.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom

“God never makes a mistake,” Corrie replied. “There is much that we shall not understand until later. But this is not a problem to me. It is God’s will that I should for a time be alone with Him.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom

“Sühren asked if she needed anything and she said no. She was likely to die at any moment anyway and they’d bring the charrette and she’d exit through the chimney. It was belligerent defiance, but she was determined to go down fighting.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“Though not designated a death camp, Sachsenhausen became one. Through starvation, hard labor, and a myriad of tortures, some forty thousand would die here, including Stalin’s son.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“regularly plundered the country for livestock, steel, textiles, corn, coal, and wine to feed and supply the fatherland. In similar fashion, it requisitioned”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“SOE was born and Dalton was tasked to coordinate its development. Churchill gave the organization two directives: (1) to create and foster a spirit of resistance in Nazi-occupied countries, and (2) to establish an underground body of operatives who would perform acts of sabotage and assist in liberation when British forces landed.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“Anyone charged with being a threat to public security was now automatically sent to a camp, and, as of 1939, such imprisonment was to last at least for the duration of the war. In addition, protective custody cleared the way for Sonderbehandlung: “special treatment” of prisoners. In other words, execution or extermination through labor.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“Lest Odette despair or feel sorry for herself, her grandfather encouraged her not to use blindness or pain as an excuse or handicap, but to be as clever as possible; there were many things she could do, and she should focus on those. Odette heeded the instruction and, as Hemingway put it, became strong in the broken places.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“Corrie swallowed and plunged ahead. “The Lord Jesus has other than human standards. The Bible reveals Him as one who has great love and mercy for all the lost and despised, for all who are small and weak and poor. It is possible that in His sight a mentally deficient person is of greater worth than you or I. Every human soul is valuable to Him.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom

“But unto God, the greatest
of Majesties, I owe
obedience, first and latest
For justice wills it so.”
― Larry Loftis

“She was no longer an angry gazelle; more like a determined angel. His angel.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“We do not expect to have an easy life here on earth,” he told Rahms. “God has never said anywhere in the Bible that everything would be easy or go smoothly. Trouble serves only to prove and test us, strengthening us for what lies ahead. We are looking forward to the day when Jesus Christ will come again. He has promised to set up his kingdom. . . . In the meantime, our hearts have the peace which He supplies, and we can be happy even in times of suffering and persecution, because we have the assurance of salvation that comes with believing and accepting Christ as our personal Savior.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom

“the greatness of ease,”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“the expanse between her thumb and forefinger; it was a sign denoting extravagance, generosity, and impetuosity.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“And Hitler was an equal opportunity killer, without regard to nationality or gender.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“For more than fifty years the Beje had been her own hiding place, her refuge. But Ravensbrück had taught her that this magnificent home—with all of its memories—was but a shadow; her true hiding place was in Christ.”
― Larry Loftis, The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom - Library Edition

“Created in 1936 to provide forced labor33 for factories, Sachsenhausen would, with its sister camps Dachau and Buchenwald (created in 1933 and 1937, respectively), serve as Heinrich Himmler’s model for concentration camps. Pitching the purpose of camps as “education” institutes,”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“When they first met, Peter had looked beyond Arnaud’s gruff personality to see a man who was highly competent, fearless, and deeply committed to the cause.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy

“So, in case you are wondering, every line of this book is true, and you can check the notes if you wish to review the source material.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“SS General”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise

“ODETTE DIED IN 1995 at the age of eighty-two. On February 23, 2012, almost seventy years after she joined the SOE, the Royal Mail released a stamp in her honor as part of its Britons of Distinction series.”
― Larry Loftis, Code Name: Lise