Don Piper Quotes

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers.
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I refer to them as miracles-although some may call them fortunate circumstances-because I believe there are no accidents or surprises with God.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again.

Couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

I had seen my refusal as not wanting to impose; they saw my change as giving them an opportunity to help.

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit.
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God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that.
Christy

sacrificial, you have always been faithful. And

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.

As long as I'm here on earth, God still has a purpose for me.

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.

Yet many times I felt terribly alone and was convinced that no one else understood. And I still think that's true. When our pain becomes intense and endures for weeks without relief, no one else really knows. I'm not sure it's worthwhile for them to know what it's like.
They care. That's what I think is important.

Although no one said so, intuitively I knew they were my celestial welcoming committee. It was as if they had all gathered just outside heaven's gate, waiting for me. The first person I recognized was Joe Kulbeth, my grandfather. He looked exactly as I remembered him, with his shock of white hair ... as I stared into his face, an ecstatic bliss overwhelmed me ... I couldn't get past the joy of our reunion. How either of us reached heaven seemed irrelevant.

No one is in a more strategic position than you are to influence the people you are with.

When you start to "fall down the stairs" there is that moment when you realize that you have no control over what is going on. You simply experience the plunge and see where it takes you.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

One question keeps troubling me: Why? ... The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.