Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

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

I realize now that God has been with me every step of my life - through the suffering.

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

Prayer is man's greatest power!

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

Falling in love with God is the most important thing a person can do.

I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that's the case with a lot of people.

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.

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Faith is the ticket to the feast, not the feast.

I don't think there's anyone who would say they don't want or need more of God's power in their life.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I want to get to know God.

Prayer immediately turns us into something greater than ourselves.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

Through my handicaps, I have found my self, my work, my God.

The one thing for which we are all being disciplined is to know that God is real. As soon as God becomes real, other people become shadows. Nothing that other saints do or say can ever perturb the one who is built on God.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.