Inspirational Quotes by Joni Eareckson Tada
“fulfillment of God’s kingdom. But one day he would. One day he would see his glorious part in God’s magnificent plan. He, the last of the old covenant prophets, would see how God used him to prepare the world to receive Jesus.”
“The accumulation of wealth is a false self or what I learned later is a 'false resting place' that breeds a soul-corroding idolatry.”
“This book is about trusting God to write your story. But as we’ve said, this is really about God’s Story. His ways. His watchful care over His creation. His Providence.”
“So what do we do when we feel drained and empty? When no one understands our suffering and no one seems to care? When we feel discouraged and tired and unbearably lonely? Read the Bible and pray. Read the Bible even when it feels like eating cardboard. And pray even when it feels like talking to a wall. Does it sound simple? It is. Does it also sound exceedingly hard? It is that as well. But reading the Bible and praying is the only way I have ever found out of my grief. There are no shortcuts to healing. When I say read, I don’t mean just reading words for a specific amount of time. I mean meditating on them. Writing down what God is saying to me. Asking God to reveal himself to me. Believing God uses Scripture to teach and to comfort me. To teach me wonderful things in his law (Ps. 119:18). To comfort me with his promises (Ps. 119:76). Reading this way changes cardboard into manna. I echo Jeremiah who said, “Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart” ( Jer. 15:16).”
“season of prolonged singleness, as it was in mine: God is good, and You can trust Him to write your story.”
“It is as though suffering is a strange sort of gift from God, a gift that we reluctantly receive and constantly want to give back. But it has extraordinary power to change us. It changes our outlook, our faith, our walk with God.”
“now that I am married, I know that Christ—not my husband, precious as he is—is my highest good, my unfailing hope, and that I can trust Him with whatever this chapter of my life may hold.”
“Our faith is not a facade we erect to convince ourselves and others that pain doesn’t hurt—it is an oak tree that can withstand the storms of doubt and pain in our lives, and grow stronger through them.”
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“Though we may walk through the valley of the shadow of death, we will never walk alone.”
“But things are not always as they seem here on earth. Heaven rules. An unseen hand controls those who think they exercise ultimate control. Kings and kingdoms, laws and decrees—these are all subject to the One who sits on the throne and reigns over all. No human is powerful enough to thwart God’s plan.”
“God is always mindful of His own, always redeeming, always acting to bring about His kingdom purposes—in His way and His time.”
“no matter how desperate the circumstances seem, God is writing His Story.”
“As we’ve seen, it’s hard enough to trust God when the unwanted diagnosis has your name on it. But it can be even more difficult when it applies to those you love—when you have to trust Him to write their story.”
“rejecting another person says more about the one doing the rejecting than it does about the one being rejected.”
“Yet as you will see in the stories that follow and as Scripture attests, our faithful, loving God has the power to redeem the unredeemable and to turn ashes to beauty, not just in spite of the injuries we have suffered, but actually through those very wounds.”
“You do not have a story until something goes wrong.” Master storyteller and bestselling novelist Steven James’s pithy advice for would-be writers also applies to the story God is writing in our lives. As James puts it: At its heart, a story is about a person dealing with tension, and tension is created by unfulfilled desire. Without forces of antagonism, without setbacks, without a crisis event that initiates the action, you have no story.”
“Like all good stories, it is about transformation. Steven James explains: Plot is the journey toward transformation…. At its most basic level, a story is a transformation unveiled—either the transformation of a situation or, most commonly, the transformation of a character”
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Joni Eareckson Tada, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Joni and Friends, is an international advocate for people with disabilities.
A diving accident in 1967 left Joni Eareckson, then 17, a quadriplegic in a wheelchair, unable to use her hands. After two years of rehabilitation, she emerged with new skills and a fresh determination to help others in similar situations.
During her rehabilitation, Joni spent long months learning how to paint with a brush between her teeth. Her high-detail fine art paintings and prints are sought-after and collected.
Her best-selling autobiography "Joni" and the feature film of the same name have been translated into many languages, introducing her to people around the world. She also has visited more than 45 countries.
She has served on the National Council on Disability and the Disability Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department.
She is Senior Associate for Disability Concerns for the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and serves in an advisory capacity to the American Leprosy Mission, the National Institute on Learning Disabilities, Love and Action and Christian Blind Mission International, as well as on the Board of Reference for the Christian Writers Guild, New Europe Communications and the Christian Medical and Dental Society.
After being the first woman honored by the National Association of Evangelicals as its "Layperson of the Year" in 1986, Joni was named "Churchwoman of the Year" in 1993 by the Religious Heritage Foundation.