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Joni Eareckson Tada

"My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happenâ€”especially since Godâ€™s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit â€¦ glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes."

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.49, David C Cook

Joni Eareckson Tada

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“Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.”
“The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.”
“Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.”
“I don't think inspiration just comes from the sky. I think you have to sit down and you have to work. Sometimes it's really hard, and sometimes things come easier, but really you have to show up, you have to get to work, and you have to have determination.”
“I'd give dollar for indefinite article.”
“It is difficult for Iranian scholars and universities to retain their independence and to be seen as doing so, when cultural warfare is being carried out by some of their American partners. Indeed, such irresponsible behavior basically serves to intensify suspicion and in reality decreases the opportunity for real and meaningful dialogue.”
“Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.”
“As o'er the stormy sea of human Life We sail, until our anchor'd spirits rest In the far haven of Eternity,...”

Source : Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.15

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