Quotes from Joni Eareckson Tada

Thats what I love about serving God. In His eyes, there are no little people...because there are no big people. We are all on the same playing field

One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there's always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.

Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.

There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.

we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

Contentment ... has an internal quietness of heart that gladly submits to God in all circumstances.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.