Latest Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes from Interviews

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• The Bible isn't quick to give answers; it mainly gives the Answer.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Giving, Answers

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Grief, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God.

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  Dark, Light, Names

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Often when people are diagnosed with a life-changing medical condition, they feel overwhelmed. They feel choked by darkness and hopelessness. Those are times when answers simply do not suffice. That's because answers don't always reach the problem where it hurts: in the gut and in the heart.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Life Changing, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heaven, Suffering, Poison

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Growing Up, Hate, Teaching

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.

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  Pain, Real, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• 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

  Thinking, Suffering, Use

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

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  Order, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Attitude, Complaining

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Many good Christians are confused about complex social issues of our day, such as doctor-assisted death or medical research which uses stem cells from human embryos. They wonder, 'Why shouldn't science use discarded fetuses for research?' And if someone finds his medical condition intolerable and hopeless, 'why shouldn't he have the legal right to end his life?' Although the Bible does not address these issues in particular, it does provide guiding insights.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Confused, Doctors

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Once the reader firmly grasps the truth of human exceptionalism under our Creator God, then the answers to confusing cultural issues begin to be clear.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Creator God, Issues, Confusing

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Faint hearts are encouraged when they read about others who, despite amputation, spinal cord injury, or psychiatric disorders have a vibrant trust and confidence in God.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heart, Amputation, Injury

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The truths of the Bible are never just abstract concepts; they're always related to real people.

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  Real, People, Abstract

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• It always helps to know that other parents with special-needs children are surviving, and surviving well.

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  Children, Parent, Special

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Even at the cross, God permitted what he hated - the unjust and agonizing death of his own precious Son - in order to accomplish something he prized above his own Son's cruel death; that is, salvation for a world of sinners. So the world's worst murder becomes the world's only salvation.

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  Son, Order, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Character, Suffering, Tools

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for suffering - most people want to drug it, escape it, divorce it; do anything but live with it.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Divorce, People, Drug

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their day-to-day drudgery of disability routines; but when hurting families place themselves under the shower of God's mercy, suddenly the clouds part. They realize there's hope, life, and even joy beyond their suffering.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Hurt, Disappointment, Clouds

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Life Is, Application, Our Lives

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• 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

  Despair, Pages, Way

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Christian, Wise, Helping

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign over accidents and birth anomalies, or does the devil set the world's agenda? How do I counsel people who are despairing of their condition?

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  Pain, Heart, People

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

• Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  People, Suffering, Looks

  Source: www.biblegateway.com