"Once you get off the ladder you'll never get back on."

“At birth man is offered only one choice --the choice of his death. But if this choice is governed by distaste for his own existence, his life will never have been more than meaningless.”

“It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.”

“I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.”

“Being with my family and loved ones makes me feel vulnerable. Speaking my truth and then being that in action. Leaving my comfort zone but knowing that risk is going to create something beautiful. I believe I have come to good terms with my vulnerability. I welcome it now, where I didn't in the past.”

“Privacy is dead. Reputations are dying.”

“He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.”

Source : Joni Eareckson Tada (2010). “A Place of Healing: Wrestling with the Mysteries of Suffering, Pain, and God's Sovereignty”, p.35, David C Cook

“Only death can finish the fight, everything else only interrupts the fighting.”

“It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.”