Quotes from Joni Eareckson Tada
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
When we honestly ask God the 'why' question, He doesn't give us answers as much as He gives us Himself.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Faith means being sure of what we hope for now. It means knowing something is real, this moment, all around you, even when you don't see it.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Even in my despair, I knew in a vague way that the Bible held hope for me in its pages. I just didn't know where to begin.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Some people tend to believe that I'm a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that's not true. I'm not a strong believer. I'm very weak.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Oh, my goodness, when you're a mother and you just give birth to a child with spina bifida and - or Down's Syndrome or cerebral palsy, there's a bit of a shock you're going to have to go through, a bit of an adjustment curve.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?
- Joni Eareckson Tada