Top 100 Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

52. “Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It’s when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

53. “This sin-stained planet would have ripped apart at the seams long ago were it not for the restraining hand of God.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

54. “The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

55. “Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God’s motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

56. “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.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

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

— Joni Eareckson Tada

58. “I was in every club and extra-curricular activity at high school, and I was in the National Honor Society.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

59. “Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don’t need God as much.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

60. “One problem I have with faith-healing is that it tends to be focused only on the physical aspect of healing. But Jesus always backed away when people came to him only to get their physical needs met. My goodness, he was ready to have you lop off your hand! His real interest was in healing the soul.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

61. “God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

62. “God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

63. “True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can’t figure things out.”

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64. “Every time we go to sleep, it’s a rehearsal of the day when our eyes will ultimately close and we wake up on the side of eternity.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

65. “Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

66. “The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

67. “Some people tend to believe that I’m a strong believer, a strong Christian, but that’s not true. I’m not a strong believer. I’m very weak.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

68. “Whether you send an e-mail, tell your spouse in person, write a letter, talk over the phone, or write a quick note, remember that what you say today has the capacity to transform the countenance and the character of the most important person in your life, your spouse.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

69. “You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else’s plug, that you know what’s on the other side of the gravestone.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

70. “The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

71. “How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?”

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72. “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

73. “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.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

74. “What a way to learn great theology! That’s what comes to mind whenever I sing one of those old hymns. “And Can It Be” is like putting the doctrine of salvation to music. “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is a melodic lesson in grace. No wonder good hymns make for strong faith!”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

75. “Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.”

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76. “God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.”

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77. “Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal – ‘I’m not letting go until I get what I want’ – it’s a problem.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

78. “God’s purpose in increasing our trials is to sensitize us to people we never would have been able to relate to otherwise.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

79. “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

80. “This paralysis is my greatest mercy.7.”

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81. “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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82. “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.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

83. “God’s hands stay on the wheel of your life from start to finish so that everything follows his intention for your life. This means your trials have more meaning – much more – than you realize.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

84. “If churches around the world would grasp the revolutionary truth that Christ’s transforming power always comes through sacrifice and weakness, it would dramatically alter the landscape of the global church.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

85. “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.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

86. “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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87. “Oh, how we need to grasp the soul-settling hope found in the pages of God’s Word – not only grasp it, but allow the hope of God to fill and overflow our hearts, transforming us into people who are confident and at peace with themselves, their God, and their circumstances.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

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

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89. “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.”

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90. “Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes from the pages of a theology text. But the invitation to know God – truly know Him – is always an invitation to suffer. Not to suffer alone, but to suffer with Him.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

91. “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.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

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

— Joni Eareckson Tada

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

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94. “God has determined to steer what He hates in a direction that He loves!”

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95. “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.”

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96. “Gut-wrenching questions honor God. Despair directed at God is a way of encountering him, opening ourselves up to the One and only Someone who can actually do something about our plight. And whether we, like Greg, collide with the Almighty or simply bump up against him, we cannot be the same. We never are when we experience God.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

97. “Probably, I thought, my suffering and training is a lifelong process. It will end only when I go to be with Christ.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada

98. “Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.”

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99. “Oh, the pain of earth, you half sigh. Then you smile, rising to your feet to live the life God had been preparing for you all along. Weeping may have endured for a night, but it is morning.”

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100. “To hunger is to be human, but to hunger for God is to feed on Him. Hunger and thirst after His righteousness and feed on Him in your heart. Taste and see that the Lord is good; it is He who will fill you to satisfaction.”

— Joni Eareckson Tada