Monica Johnson Quotes

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

I'd say most definitely with my faith, there's no room for me with it. It's always about other people. It's always about loving on other people and giving praise where praise is due.

True liberty does violence to self and, like Christ, who disregarded that he was sovereign becomes a slave to serve others.

It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is the beginning of blessedness and the consummation of humility is the perfection of all joy. Humility contains in itself the answer to all the great problems of the life of the soul. It is the only key to faith, with which the spiritual life begins: for faith and humility are inseparable. In perfect humility all selfishness disappears and your soul no longer lives for itself or in itself for God: and it is lost and submerged in Him and transformed into Him.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others...not dominating, but helping and serving. It must tell men of every calling what it means to live for Christ, to exist for others.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

I know sanctification comes not with any particular calling, but with genuine acts of service, often for which there is no specific calling.

They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.

I am better off doing as abnegation taught me: turning away from myself, projecting always outward, and hoping that in whatever is next, I will be better than I am now.

True humility is absolute obedience and dependence on God. It puts Him first, others second, and ourselves third in all things.

Humility - the discipline of putting others ahead of self, the choice to value others above self - is, at its core, a matter of faith.

You will never be more than a common Christian until you give up your own interest and cease defending yourself.

True humility means giving joy to others.

Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love.

Discipleship is crucial to our ultimate destiny, but its cost is total commitment.

It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self.

Humility is not a part of devotional service, it is the heart of devotional service.

Whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

It was actually the opposite of what a director once said to me. He said, 'Remember, everyone is here to serve you.' And as he walked away, I thought to myself, 'It's exactly the opposite: I'm here to serve everyone.

If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.

Jesus had a humble heart. If He abides in us, pride will never dominate our lives.

In any Christian view of life, self-fulfillment must never be permitted to become the controlling issue. The issue is service, the service of real people. The question is, 'How can I be most useful?', not, 'How can I feel most useful?'

Decide that you don’t mind being inconvenienced or interrupted, and God will use you to make a difference.

The hardest part of being a Christian is surrendering and that is where the real struggle happens. Once we have overcome our own desire to be elevated, our own desire to be recognized, our own desire to be independent and all those things that we value very much because we are Americans and we are part of this American culture. Once we have overcome that struggle then God can use us as a part of His body to accomplish what the body of Christ was left here to accomplish.