Monica Johnson Quotes

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

We all have that power to have a soul that magnifies God.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

Asceticism doesn't lie in mere words; He is an ascetic who treats everyone alike. Asceticism doesn't lie in visiting burial places; it lies not in wandering about nor in bathing at places of pilgrimage. Asceticism is to remain pure amidst impurities.

The struggle between God and man breaks out in everyone, together with the longing for reconciliation... God does not love weak souls and flabby flesh. The spirit desires to wrestle with flesh which is strong and full of resistance. It is a carnivorous bird which is incessantly hungry; it eats flesh and, by assimilating it, makes it disappear.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Have faith in God. It will make you dig deeper and become a better leader.

Indeed, this life is a test. It is a test of many things - of our convictions and priorities, our faith and our faithfulness, our patience and our resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Increased spiritual strength is a gift from God which He can give when we push in His service to our limits. Through the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ, our natures can be changed. Then our power to carry burdens can be increased more than enough to compensate for the increased service we will be asked to give.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

God made you a masterpiece - be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

God can only do for you what He can do through you.