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God's purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.
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There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.
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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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I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
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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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Believers are never told to become one we already are one and are expected to act like it.
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Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
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Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
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I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God squeezes, revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.
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God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
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We dare not think that God is absent or daydreaming. The do nothing God...He's not tucked away in some far corner of the universe, uncaring, unfeeling, unthinking, uninvolved. Count on it, God intrudes in glorious and myriad ways.
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...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.
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A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.
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Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn’t fit this description.
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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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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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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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