Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Make God first priority. He's worth it!

On the field I'm trying to play for the glory of God but then also I'm trying to give everything I have and win and compete. And so I think more than just winning or losing, I think He cares about where our hearts are when we're playing.

Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

If you really want to experience God, go and make disciples.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.

I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.