Regard People...

"We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Creator?

"Could such a great symphony as the universe have no conductor?" ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Heart Operations

"Spiritual surgery is more painful than physical surgery. God doesn't use an anesthetic; He doesn't do His work while we are asleep. God can take any brokenhearted believer and make him or her a radiant, loving person. But when He performs such "heart operations," His children are wide awake." ~ Erwin W. Lutzer

Pain is Necessary

"I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God." ~ Elisabeth Elliot

How's Your Aim?

“Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.”
~ C.S. Lewis

Is Humor Worth It?

"Those of us who are endowed with the dangerous gift of humour have need, sometimes, to stop and take the word out of our mouth and look at it, and see whether it is quite to edification." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Joy is...

"Joy is not the absence of suffering. It is the presence of God." ~ Robert Schuller

The Greatest Suffering

"I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody." ~ Mother Teresa

Wrong Yesterday

"To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I WILL Trust HIM!

"I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain." ~ John Henry Newman

Wheelchairs = Gifts

"Even though I have rough moments in my wheelchair, for the most part I consider my paralysis a gift. Just as Jesus exchanged the meaning of the Cross from a symbol of torture to one of hope and salvation, He gives me the grace to do the same with my chair. If a cross can become a blessing, so can a wheelchair. The wheelchair, in a sense, is behind me now. The despair is over. There are now other crosses to bear, other "wheelchairs" in my life to be exchanged into gifts." ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

Mourning

"I believe the holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him." ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Misdiagnosis

"Nothing is more often misdiagnosed than our homesickness for Heaven. We think that what we want is money, sex, drugs, alcohol, a new job, a raise, a doctorate, a spouse, a large-screen television, a new car, a vacation. What we ­really want is the person we were made for, ­Jesus, and the place we were made for, Heaven. Nothing less can satisfy us." Your name and renown are the desire of our hearts (Isaiah 26:8). ~ Repost from Randy Alcorn

Suffering Can Perfect

"We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus." ~ Oswald Chambers