Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada

About Joni Eareckson Tada:

Joni Eareckson Tada is an evangelical Christian, author, radio host, and founder of Joni and Friends, an organization "accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community."
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Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to ...

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

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The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.

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

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

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

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

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Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to gi...

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I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportu...

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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 sometime...

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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.

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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.

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In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

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Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

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God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

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Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously disp...

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When we say yes to the grace of God, we are learning how to die.

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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.

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

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Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoni Eareckson Tada
  • DescriptionAmerican artist
  • BornOctober 15, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Artist