Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

“Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.”

“Referencing 2 Corinthians 4:6, Robert Hewitt compares jars of clay in the first century to the same value we would put on a cardboard box. Joni Eareckson Tada queries whether we would question God's right to leave some holes in the box in order to give glimpses of the treasure inside”

“I've looked at life from both sides now From up and down and still somehowIt's life's illusions I recallI really don't know life at all”

“Only God is capable of telling us what our rights and needs are. You have to surrender that right to Him.”

“We are stardustBillion-year old carbonAnd we've got to get ourselves back to the garden”

“I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.”

“It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.”

“Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.”

“You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.”

“I see music as fluid architecture.”