Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

It is by letting the world go and coming unto Christ that we increasingly live as women of God.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

The Gospel purifies and renews: it bears fruit wherever the community of believers hears and welcomes the grace of God in truth and lives in charity. This is my faith; this is my joy.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Getting into Heaven is not something you can earn or deserve. God makes that really clear in the scriptures.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

I'm not praying for God to save me from cancer. I'm not. God will enlighten me when the time comes. And if I've done the right thing, I will be enlightened. And if I believe, I'll be saved. And that's all he promises me.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

If you are not living unto Christ, you are not dying unto Him, either.

Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God's love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has a purpose.

We should die relying on grace alone

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out.

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

Learning by faith and from experience are two of the central features of the Father's plan of happiness. The Savior preserved moral agency through the Atonement and made it possible for us to act and to learn by faith.

What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

For Christians, they need to access the power of Jesus and not look at Christianity as a religion. It is our Lord Jesus that makes you change, and Christians need to actualize it and put it into practice.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of my life, really, since I was a child, but at 16 years of age, I fully surrendered my life over to Christ. At that point, as a teenager, I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God. Thinking that we can trade our good works for salvation is like buying a plane ticket and then supposing we own the airline. Or thinking that after paying rent for our home, we now hold title to the entire planet earth.