“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.” — Joni Eareckson Tada Quote

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”

“Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.”

“You better be very convinced, very sure, before you pull your plug or someone else's plug, that you know what's on the other side of the gravestone.”

“God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!”

“My life goal is to see the world's one billion people with disabilities embraced and encouraged by the church.”

“If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.”

“It's often, we think, we understand the world until the world itself scatters you into nothing. Why only in the darkest hour does God's blessing show its true form?”

“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”

“Belief creates the actual fact.”

“You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don’t need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.”

“A purposeless virtue is a contradiction in terms. Virtue, like harmony, cannot exist alone; a virtue must lead to harmony between one creature and another. To be good for nothing is just that. If a virtue has been thought a virtue long enough, it must be assumed to have practical justification - though the very longevity that proves its practicality may obscure it. That seems to be what happened with the idea of fidelity...”

“The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.”