Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

Right now if this preacher died he would go to heaven. Not because I spent years in the jungles and the Andes Mountains of Peru. Not because of piety, devotion or bible study. Not because of denominational affiliation, baptism, or participation in the Lord’s supper. If I died right now, I would go to heaven because two thousand years ago the Son of God shed His blood for this wretched man. And that is my hope.

Only sinners need saviors.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.

Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

In the Church of Scotland, Episcopalian, you don't have to believe in Heaven, but you definitely have to believe in Hell.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.