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Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

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Joni Eareckson Tada
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: October 15
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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.
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Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step.
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I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.
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I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
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Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.
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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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Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.
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Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.
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The Christian faith is meant to be lived moment by moment. It isn't some broad, general outline--it's a long walk with a real Person. Details count: passing thoughts, small sacrifices, a few encouraging words, little acts of kindness, brief victories over nagging sins.
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.
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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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Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
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If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ's transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.
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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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Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
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Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
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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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The hallmark of a healthy society has always been measured by how it cares for the disadvantaged.
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