{"author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["life","value","believe "],"id":1681,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"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.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["glory-of-god","weakness"],"id":18777,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["me","greatest","weakness "],"id":27708,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"There is nothing that moves a loving father's soul quite like his child's cry.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["children","fathers","love","parenting"],"id":66857,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"I have an interesting perspective on depending on others. I think it gives people a chance to serve. And I'm not so much big on independence, as I am on interdependence. I'm not talking about co-dependency, I'm talking about giving people the opportunity to practicing love with its sleeves rolled up.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["love","opportunity","i am "],"id":103071,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"Maybe the truly handicapped people are the ones that don't need God as much.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["dependence","independence","pride","weaknesses"],"id":104173,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"Here at our ministry we refuse to present a picture of “gentle Jesus, meek and mild,” a portrait that tugs at your sentiments or pulls at your heartstrings. That’s because we deal with so many people who suffer, and when you’re hurting hard, you’re neither helped nor inspired by a syrupy picture of the Lord, like those sugary, sentimental images many of us grew up with. You know what I mean? Jesus with His hair parted down the middle, surrounded by cherubic children and bluebirds.Come on. Admit it: When your heart is being wrung out like a sponge, when you feel like Morton’s salt is being poured into your wounded soul, you don’t want a thin, pale, emotional Jesus who relates only to lambs and birds and babies.You want a warrior Jesus.You want a battlefield Jesus. You want his rigorous and robust gospel to command your sensibilities to stand at attention.To be honest, many of the sentimental hymns and gospel songs of our heritage don’t do much to hone that image. One of the favorite words of hymn writers in days gone by was sweet. It’s a term that down’t have the edge on it that it once did. When you’re in a dark place, when lions surround you, when you need strong help to rescue you from impossibility, you don’t want “sweet.” You don’t want faded pastels and honeyed softness.You want mighty. You want the strong arm an unshakable grip of God who will not let you go — no matter what.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["christianity","jesus","suffering"],"id":108403,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"Like all good citizens, the elderly and people with disabilities want to eradicate waste and fraud from government, but helping people with special needs meet their basic needs doesn't fit this description.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["good","people","want "],"id":111996,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["day","culture","comfort "],"id":146570,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"},{"text":"Alzheimer's disease is never an 'accident' in a marriage. It falls under the purview of God's sovereignty. In the case of someone with Alzheimer's, this means God's unconditional and sacrificial love has an opportunity to be even more gloriously displayed in a life together.","author":"Joni Eareckson Tada","tags":["love","life","god "],"id":153364,"author_id":"Joni+Eareckson+Tada"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}