Overcoming
From Christianity Today.
Sue Thomas has been deaf since she was 18 months old. But that didn't stop her from living a life full of excitement and adventure. She was a figure skating state champion at age 7 and later became an accomplished pianist, even though she could only feel the vibrations of the music. She earned a political science degree in college, despite being labeled "special" as a student in public schools. Then there was this little gig she had as a special assistant for the FBI. Her fearless work as an undercover surveillance expert—aided by her extraordinary ability to read lips—has inspired a prime-time TV series — Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.
Quotes:
"With God's help, there is absolutely nothing in my life I can't do."
"I feel that the series reinforces in a powerful way that there is a God who created us all for a very special purpose."
Comments: Reminds me of Helen Keller.
Some Keller quotes:
"I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Sue Thomas has been deaf since she was 18 months old. But that didn't stop her from living a life full of excitement and adventure. She was a figure skating state champion at age 7 and later became an accomplished pianist, even though she could only feel the vibrations of the music. She earned a political science degree in college, despite being labeled "special" as a student in public schools. Then there was this little gig she had as a special assistant for the FBI. Her fearless work as an undercover surveillance expert—aided by her extraordinary ability to read lips—has inspired a prime-time TV series — Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye.
Quotes:
"With God's help, there is absolutely nothing in my life I can't do."
"I feel that the series reinforces in a powerful way that there is a God who created us all for a very special purpose."
Comments: Reminds me of Helen Keller.
Some Keller quotes:
"I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
"Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles."
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."
"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure or nothing at all."
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