Cas Collins’s Reviews > The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom > Status Update

'Distress teaches some to pray. It hardens others. Hardness is a defense mechanism which had at times its temptations for me also. If one cannot endure the sight of suffering about him he tries to build a cloak of armor about his heart. But that makes people insensitive to good influences also.'

'We have to consider that a man who has been under such enormous mental pressure for such a long time is naturally in some degree of danger after his liberation, especially since the pressure was released quite suddenly.'

Martin Niemöller : 'First they came for the Jews. I was silent. I was not a Jew. Then they came for the Communists. I was silent. I was not a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists. I was silent. I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me. There was no one left to speak for me.'