"True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain"

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Source : Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.223, Moody Publishers

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#Jesus Quotes #Pain Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.”
“However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite.”
“Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.”
“I was fascinated by each area I studied, whether neurology, urology or surgery.”
“Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.”
“People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible.”
“All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.”
“One Negro meeting another at an all-white cocktail party cannot but wonder how the other got there. The question is: Is he for real? Or is he just kissing ass? Almost all Negroes, are almost always acting, but before a white audience - which is quite incapable of judging their performance.”

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