Ida Scudder Quotes

“God will provide,” Ida assured him. “Once you start, I am sure everything will fall into place. It always has.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“Only those who can see the invisible can achieve the impossible,”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“First ponder then dare. Know your facts. Count the cost. Money is not the important thing. What you are building is not a medical school. It is the Kingdom of God. Don’t err on the side of being too small. If this is the will of God that we should find some way to keep the college open. It has to be done.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“Twenty-five years had whisked by with its challenges and triumphs. Ida now had a medical school, a nursing school, and a large hospital, but still there was much more to be done. Ida found herself wondering what her next challenge would be.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“Ida finally made up her mind when she visited her father’s grave. She asked herself what he would have advised her to do, and she felt sure that he would have told her to reach for the stars, that Jesus promised that people could move mountains if they only believed.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“Ida knew that she was fighting ignorance and superstition every bit as much as she was fighting poor hygiene and disease.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts

“The small clinic Ida had opened after her father’s death had grown into a 544-bed hospital staffed by 108 nurses and 174 nursing students. Two hundred doctors had graduated from the medical college, and two hundred seventy-five nurses from the nurses’ training school. Now they were spread all over India and beyond. Ida thought of the times she had wanted to give up, but the recollection of those three dead women and their babies had spurred her on. Yes, God is good, Ida thought. He has done more than I could ever have hoped or dreamed.”
― Janet Benge, Ida Scudder: Healing Bodies, Touching Hearts