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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
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Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight they just don't know where to look.
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I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.
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Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
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Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
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If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
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God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!
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Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
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My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
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Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
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Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.
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When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.
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My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.
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Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field
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I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.
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One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.
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Americans are nervous Americans are restless and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.
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When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words he gives us the Word the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
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The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.
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