Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There's not one part that He doesn't want to make completely whole.

This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.

We are made in the image of God, and we need to put Spirit back into the equation when we want to improve our physical and our mental health.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.

The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'

Only the holy spirit, the spirit of the lord, can transform us.

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless, it must be done by the Spirit.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

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

I have an increasing sense that the most important crisis of our time is spiritual and that we need places where people can grow stronger in the spirit and be able to integrate the emotional struggles in their spiritual journeys.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance. What I suggest - based on the Christian tradition but not often preached - is that you can't enter into the fullness of the Pascal mystery of the redemption unless there is a radical transformation of motivation within you.

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.