Joni Eareckson Tada
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Biography
Joni Eareckson Tada is an American evangelical Christian author, radio host, artist, and founder of Joni PTL, Joni and Friends, an organization "accelerating Christian ministry in the disability community".
"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society."
"Life becomes inspiring, not in spite of the problems and the hard hits, but because of them."
"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
"I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up."
"...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."
"Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised."
"Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!"
"There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry."
"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."
"My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up."
"In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it."
"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."
"None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths."
"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."