22 Quotes & Sayings By Joni Eareckson Tada

Joni Eareckson Tada is a Christian writer, speaker, and author. Her books are all available in audio CD format at www.joni.org. Joni was born with cerebral palsy, but her life has been one of triumph over adversity. Her autobiography is titled Fit to Fight: A Woman's Guide to Winning the Battle of Stuttering, which recounts her incredible story of survival Read more

She was the recipient of the Presidential Citizens Medal for her work combating stuttering. Joni was also inducted into the Stuttering Foundation Hall of Fame in 2007 for her lifetime accomplishments in the field with the organization she founded, "Joni's Voice."

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he...
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Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves. Joni Eareckson Tada
...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the...
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...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. Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can...
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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! Joni Eareckson Tada
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He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace. Joni Eareckson Tada
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There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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 turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him. Joni Eareckson Tada
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Here at our ministry we refuse to present a picture of “gentle Jesus, meek and mild, ” a portrait that tugs at your sentiments or pulls at your heartstrings. That’s because we deal with so many people who suffer, and when you’re hurting hard, you’re neither helped nor inspired by a syrupy picture of the Lord, like those sugary, sentimental images many of us grew up with. You know what I mean? Jesus with His hair parted down the middle, surrounded by cherubic children and bluebirds. Come on. Admit it: When your heart is being wrung out like a sponge, when you feel like Morton’s salt is being poured into your wounded soul, you don’t want a thin, pale, emotional Jesus who relates only to lambs and birds and babies. You want a warrior Jesus.You want a battlefield Jesus. You want his rigorous and robust gospel to command your sensibilities to stand at attention. To be honest, many of the sentimental hymns and gospel songs of our heritage don’t do much to hone that image. One of the favorite words of hymn writers in days gone by was sweet. It’s a term that down’t have the edge on it that it once did. When you’re in a dark place, when lions surround you, when you need strong help to rescue you from impossibility, you don’t want “sweet.” You don’t want faded pastels and honeyed softness. You want mighty. You want the strong arm an unshakable grip of God who will not let you go – no matter what. . Joni Eareckson Tada
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The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book. Joni Eareckson Tada
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The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became. Joni Eareckson Tada
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Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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 give glimpses of the treasure inside Joni Eareckson Tada
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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. Joni Eareckson Tada
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My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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 opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up. Joni Eareckson Tada
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In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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 displayed in a life together. Joni Eareckson Tada
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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. Joni Eareckson Tada
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If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society. Joni Eareckson Tada