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God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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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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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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When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
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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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Believers are never told to become one we already are one and are expected to act like it.
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God wants us to be a good example to others who are observing us.
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Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
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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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