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.
— Joni Eareckson Tada (b. 1949), Autorin, Gründerin von Joni and Friends, Behindertenaktivistin
Topics: Meaning & Identity, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death
Occasions: For Reflection
Joni Eareckson Tada
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.
All quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada (37)
You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.
Augustine of Hippo
Jesus calls us not to a new religion, but to life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
Henri Nouwen
To love a person means to see them as God meant them to be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
There is a God, and I'm not him.
John Mark Comer
God has put eternity into our hearts and filled it with longing.
John Piper
Prayers are tools not for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.
Eugene Peterson