Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

God made us. He's in charge of everything, right? If He didn't like us, why didn't he change us?

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

God uses whoever he wants.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?

Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

God does not play dice.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.

It must never be forgotten that Almighty God rules this world. He is not an absentee God.

Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.