Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

However benevolent may be the intentions of Providence, they do not always advance the happiness of the individual. Providence has always higher ends in view, and works in a pre-eminent degree on the inner feelings and disposition.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

You must realize that it is the ordinary way of God's dealings with us that our ideas do not work out speedily and efficiently as we would like them to. The reason for this is not only the loving wisdom of God, but also the fact that our acts have to fit into a great complex pattern that we cannot possibly understand. I have learned over the years that Providence is always a whole lot wiser than any of us, and that there are always not only good reasons, but the very best reasons for the delays and blocks that often seem to us so frustrating and absurd.

You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.

In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we would have avoided was essential to our well-being.

God has brought me to Kentucky...the precise place he has chosen for my sanctification.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

I believe that the Lord has a plan for each of us that's better than anything we can imagine, even if that plan isn't obvious to us at every stage. He prepared me for this over a long period of time - in lower-profile locker rooms and the grocery store and in Europe, through all the personal tragedies and in spite of the people who doubted me along the way.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

Blessings can come in a number of ways. The Lord doesn't give you what you want, the Lord gives you what you need.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

Our circumstances are the means God uses to exhibit just how wonderfully perfect and extraordinarily pure His Son is.

The unceasing activity of the Creator whereby, in overflowing bounty and goodwill, He upholds His creatures in ordered existence, guides and governs all events, circumstances, and free acts of angels and men, and directs everything to its appointed goal, for His own glory.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

The will of God prevails.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

The most important thing ... is the name of the Lord. The name of the Lord will be glorified. I want to let the people know that there is a God who can raise people from nothing into something. And that's me. I came from nothing into something.

We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.