184 Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada

Your cross is your attitude about your dead-end job and your in-laws. It is your attitude about your aches and pains. Any complaints, any grumblings, any disputings or murmurings, any anxieties, any worries, any resentments or anything that hints of a raging torrent of bitterness – these are the things God calls me to die to daily.

The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. – PROVERBS 18:10.

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

With David, I sometimes sigh, “How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my hear? How long will my enemy triumph over me?”1.

I’d learned that you can’t wear a crown unless you bear a cross – that if our Savior had learned obedience through suffering, we should expect the same.

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God – and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.

Every Christian who keeps looking up stretches his heart’s capacity for Heaven.

It’s music that can only come from particular instruments, broken in particular ways, and yielded with particular humility. I also believe it brings God glory in a way that is completely unique on earth or in the heavens. And that’s a thought that keeps me going, too.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. – C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain.