The Practice of the Presence of Jesus Quotes

“I finally realized that embracing God’s hard will with a grateful spirit is the highest expression of faith in him and the most glorious experience a Christian can have.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior

“Years of pain have taught me that if you want to know Christ deeply—not skating the surface but intimately—it will mean journeying through deep suffering. Think of it: When Jesus gave you his most amazing, life-transforming display of love; when he showed you the height, depth, and breadth of that love; when he withheld nothing but wrung himself inside out to death, pouring out all of his love to the last drop…it happened on a torturous cross, his greatest point of horror and anguish. It seems then that if we are to know Jesus in an intimate way, it will take place in our own points of horror and anguish.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior

“By subduing rebellious thoughts. And you really make Jesus shine by trusting him, for then you are proving that his Word is utterly reliable. He really is as good as the Bible says he is. And the harder it seems to trust him, the better he looks when you do.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior

“Jesus hung on a cross so that his dearly beloved would never have to suffer hell, not so that they wouldn’t suffer here on earth.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior

“I am in pain to see you suffer so long: what gives me some ease, and sweetens the feeling I have of your griefs is, that they are proofs of God’s love towards you: see them in that view, and you will bear them more easily. —Brother Lawrence, page 58”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The Practice of the Presence of Jesus: Daily Meditations on the Nearness of Our Savior