Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni Eareckson Tada (b. 1949) — Autorin, Gründerin von Joni and Friends, Behindertenaktivistin · evangelikal · USA
Joni Eareckson Tada (* 1949) ist eine US-amerikanische evangelikale Autorin, Künstlerin und Gründerin der christlichen Hilfsorganisation Joni and Friends. Bekannt wurde sie durch ihr weltweites Engagement für Menschen mit Behinderungen sowie ihre pointierten bioethischen Positionen gegen assistierten Suizid und embryonale Stammzellenforschung. Für Bibelleser steht sie für eine Auseinandersetzung mit Leid und Schwachheit, die Schmerz nicht als mangelnden Glauben deutet, sondern das Vertrauen auf Gottes Souveränität betont.
Era: Today
Recurring topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Illness & Weakness, Discipleship, Humility & Pride
Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
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Nothing is a surprise to God; nothing is a setback to His plans; nothing can thwart His purposes; and nothing is beyond His control. His sovereignty is absolute. Everything that happens is uniquely ordained by God. Sovereignty is a weighty thing to ascribe to the nature and character of God. Yet if He were not sovereign, He would not be God. The Bible is clear that God is in control of everything that happens.
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Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
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Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.
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Heavenly fellowship with friends won’t be some ethereal do-nothingness where we yawn, sit around on clouds, and ogle at angels. Because heaven is the home of redeemed humans, it will be thoroughly “human” in it structure and activities.
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The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.
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The weaker I am, the harder I must lean on God's grace; the harder I lean on him, the stronger I discover him to be, and the bolder my testimony to his grace.
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Your heart, mind, hands and feet are stamped with the imprint of the Creator. Little wonder that the Devil wants you to be ashamed of your body.
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Though gradually, though no one remembers exactly how it happened, the unthinkable becomes tolerable. And then acceptable. And then legal. And then applaudable.
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Jesus hung on a cross so that his dearly beloved would never have to suffer hell, not so that they wouldn't suffer here on earth.
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I still can hardly believe it. I, with shriveled, bent fingers, atrophied muscles, gnarled knees, and no feeling from the shoulders down, will one day have a new body, light, bright, and clothed in righteousness—powerful and dazzling. Can you imagine the hope this gives someone spinal-cord injured like me? Or someone who is cerebral palsied, brain-injured, or who has multiple sclerosis? Imagine the hope this gives someone who is manic-depressive. No other religion, no other philosophy promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the Gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.
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I finally realized that embracing God's hard will with a grateful spirit is the highest expression of faith in him and the most glorious experience a Christian can have.
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Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.
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It isn't the hurts, blows, and bruises that rob us of the freshness of Christ's beauty in our lives. More likely, it is careless ease, empty pride, earthly preoccupations, and too much prosperity that will put layers of dirty film over our souls.
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People who don’t believe in God consider time an adversary. For them, the ticking of the second hand sounds like the stalking of an enemy. Each minute move them toward death. And everyone, whether rich or poor, tries to grab the hour hand and shove it backward.
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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.
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Believers are never told to become one; we already are one and are expected to act like it.
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Because faith makes invisible things real, and visible things unreal, earthly dissatisfaction becomes the road to heavenly satisfaction.
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We pilgrims walk the tightrope between earth and heaven, feeling trapped in time, yet with eternity beating in our hearts. Our unsatisfied sense of exile is not to be solved or fixed while here on earth. Our pain and longings make sure we will never be content, but that’s good: it is to our benefit that we do not grow comfortable in a world destined for decay.
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When a Christian realizes his citizenship is in heaven, he begins acting as a responsible citizen of earth.
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Don’t think such heavenly mindedness makes us pilgrims no earthly good. Don’t pooh-pooh it as looking at the world through pie-in-the-sky, rose-colored glasses. Sojourners who think the most of the next world are usually those who are doing the highest good in this one. It is the person whose mind is only on earthly things who, when it comes to earth, does little good.
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When the suffering on Golgotha brings us to our knees, our old self dies.
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Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
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But there's something earthy about my response to God that further sickens Satan. I believe he views disabilities as his last great stronghold to defame the good character of God. Suffering is that last frontier he exploits to smear God's trustworthiness.
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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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We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.
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Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to be with Christ.
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There will, one day, be an existence for us that will be the ultimate in reality and experience, and we can understand this truth only by faith. What we see by faith is true reality.
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“Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians 15:50). Entrance to heaven requires a redeemed body. The body must be rid of the law of sin at work in its members. At the present time, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. The day is coming, however, when instead of being a hindrance to the spirit, the body will be the perfect vessel for the expression of my glorified mind, will, and emotions. Right now, we wear our souls on the inside. But one day we will be “clothed in righteousness” as we wear our souls on the outside, brilliant and glorious.
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For me, true contentment on earth means asking less of this life because more is coming in the next. Godly contentment is great gain. Heavenly gain. Because God has created the appetites in your heart, it stands to reason that He must be the consummation of that hunger. Yes, heaven will galvanize your heart if you focus your faith not on a place of glittery mansions, but on a Person, Jesus, who makes heaven a home.
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Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.
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Somehow, somewhere within you is the pattern of the heavenly person you will become, and if you want to catch a glimpse of how glorious and full of splendor your body will be, just do a comparison. Compare a hairy peach pit with the tree it becomes, loaded with fragrant blossoms and sweet fruit. They are totally different, yet the same. Compare a caterpillar with a butterfly. As wet, musty flower bulb with an aromatic hyacinth. A hairy coconut with a graceful palm tree.
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Most of the time, we scratched our heads and wondered how the matted mesh of threads in Romans 8:28 could possibly be woven together for our good. On earth, the underside of the tapestry was tangled and unclear; but in heaven, 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.
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The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
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Time itself is one more name for death.
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