You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you … - Joni Eareckson Tada

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Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes. . . has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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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Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers. . . can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

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True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

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God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

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Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

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Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

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Jay Ellis

We [African-Americans] are nearly half of all of the new cases of HIV every year, but we only represent 13 percent of the [U. S. ] population. So, this is something that's literally bombarding our community, non-stop. We're such a small part of the nation [and] those numbers are alarming. We're putting ourselves in danger, we don't talk about getting tested and we don't talk about knowing [your status].

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Kazimir Malevich

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes. . . has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition.

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Barbara Stanwyck

Put me in the last fifteen minutes of a picture and I don't care what happened before. I don't even care if I was IN the rest of the damned thing - I'll take it in those fifteen minutes.

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Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

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Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

The years of imprisonment hardened me. . . . Perhaps if you have been given a moment to hold back and wait for the next blow, your emotions wouldn't be blunted as they have been in my case. When it happens every day of your life, when that pain becomes a way of life, I no longer have the emotion of fear. there is no longer anything I can fear. There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.

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