Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

God is with those who persevere.

The only way to meet affliction is to pass through it solemnly, slowly, with humility and faith, as the Israelites passed through the sea. Then its very ways of misery will divide, and become to us a wall, on the right side and on the left, until the gulf narrows before our eyes and we land safe on the opposite sore.

Whatever God has brought about Is to be borne with courage.

Patience, piety, and salutary knowledge spring up and ripen under the harrow of affliction; before there is wine or oil, the grape must be trodden and the oil pressed.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.

My faith was tested like Job. That's the message I try to tell other people: just because you believe in God, serve God, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, people gotta realize, it don't mean things not gonna happen to you.

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

God doesn't give you more than you can handle.

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

One belief that I've developed to carry me through extremely tough times is simply this: God's delays are not God's denials.

As in nature, as in the arts, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls as well as stones their lustre; the more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, their God has no end in view but to perfect His people's graces. Our Father, and and kindest of fathers, He afflicts not willingly; He sends tribulations, but hear St Paul tell their purpose, - "Tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope."

Do not fret over your heavy troubles, for they are the heralds of weighty mercies.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.