Quotes from Joni Eareckson Tada

Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes.

One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.

Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word.

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.

There's a big difference between feeling thankful and giving thanks. One response involves emotions, the other, your will. Trusting God has nothing to do with trustful feelings.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

Every time we go to sleep, it's a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him.