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Programs, systems and methods sit well in the
ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms
of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of
a theology text. But the invitation to know God -
truly know Him - is always an invitation to
suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with
Him. - Joni Eareckson Tada
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Faith in God offers no insurance against
tragedy. - Philip Yancey
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No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no
gall, no glory no cross, no crown. -
William Penn
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We cannot learn without pain. -
Aristotle
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he
stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but
where he stands at times of challenge and
controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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For man's greatest actions are performed in
minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation,
abandonment and poverty are battlefields which
have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at
times greater than illustrious heroes. -
Victor Hugo Author of Les Miserables
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Tis easy enough to be pleasant, when life
flows like a song. But the man worthwhile is the
one who will smile when everything goes dead
wrong. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward
pain is to accept the fact that everything that
happens to us has been designed for our spiritual
growth. - M. Scott Peck
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Dont worry, be happy. - Bobby Mcferin
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I cant stand that song! - Paul
Morris
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Adversity and loss make a man wise.
- Welsh Proverb
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to
the muscles, they toughen and make strong. -
Norman Vincent Peale
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Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring
up rare pearls. - Charles Spurgeon
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It is not every calamity that is a curse, and
early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted
difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in
our future struggles. - James Sharp
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Once you see your affliction as a preparation to
meet God, you won't be quick to call it suffering
again. 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. -
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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
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For it is commendable if you bear up under the
pain of unjust suffering because you are
conscious of God. - 1 Peter 219 (TNIV)

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Hey Paul, Whats an Ossuary?!
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James, son of Joseph,
brother of Jesus
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• 1. The Father of Judas (Luke 616)

2. The Son of Alphaeus (Mark 318)
3. The Son of Zebedee, the brother of John
(Acts 122)
4. The brother of Jesus (Acts 1513)
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Where did this man get these things? they
asked. What's this wisdom that has been given
him, that he even does miracles! Isn't this the
carpenter? Isn't this Mary's son and the brother
of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren't his
sisters here with us? And they took offense at
him. - Mark 63 (TNIV)
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Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd
gathered, so that he and his disciples were not
even able to eat. When his family heard about
this, they went to take charge of him, for they
said, He is out of his mind. - Mark
320-21 (TNIV)
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Jesus brothers said to him, You ought to leave
here and go to Judea, so that your disciples may
see the miracles you do. No one who wants to
become a public figure acts in secret. Since you
are doing these things, show yourself to the
world. For even his own brothers did not believe
in him. - John 73 - 5 (TNIV)
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• Trials
• (Testing of our faith)

Maturity
Perseverance
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The experiences of camp life show that man does
have a choice of action. There were enough
examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved
that apathy could be overcome, irritability
suppressed. Man can preserve a vestige of
spiritual freedom, of independence of mind, even
in such terrible conditions of psychic and
physical stress everything can be taken from man
but one thing the last of human freedoms to
choose ones attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose ones own way -
Dr. Viktor Frankle
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Then he said to them all "If anyone would
come after me, he must deny himself and take up
his cross daily and follow me. - Luke 923
(TNIV)
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I want to know Christ and the power of his
resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his
sufferings, becoming like him in his death.
- Philippians 310 (TNIV)
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