Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him.… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Most people wish they could erase suffering out of the dictionary. Today's culture of comfort and instant gratification has no patience for… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Programs, systems and methods sit well in the ivory towers of monasteries or in the wooden arms of icons. Head knowledge comes… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Suffering always prompts heart-wrenching questions: if God is good, why would He allow this pain in my life? Is God truly sovereign… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Many people in the throes of suffering, disappointment, and despair, feel utterly stuck in their circumstances. They see no hope beyond their… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
God uses suffering to purge sin from our lives, strengthen our commitment to Him, force us to depend on grace, bind us… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Here at our ministry we refuse to present a picture of “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” a portrait that tugs at your… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
“Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
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… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
Let him who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on his God. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
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"… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
The success of God's Word in our lives is linked intrinsically to our application of its truth. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
“Tada references the accusation in Jeremiah that the people have forsaken God as Living Water by remembering a hiking trip from her younger days.… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
Thankfully, God brought wise Christian friends alongside to help me discover life-transforming precepts in his Word. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice. — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
Many good Christians are confused about complex social issues of our day, such as doctor-assisted death or medical research which uses stem cells from… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share
