Eric Johnson > Eric's Quotes

“Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.”
― Thomas Merton

“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
― Thomas Merton

“Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.”
― Thomas Merton

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
― Thomas Merton , No Man Is an Island

“Keeping a journal has taught me that there is not so much new in your life as you sometimes think. When you re-read your journal you find out that your latest discovery is something you already found out five years ago. Still, it is true that one penetrates deeper and deeper into the same ideas and the same experiences.”
― Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas

“The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds”
― Thomas Merton

“What we have to be is what we are.”
― Thomas Merton

“Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real”
― Thomas Merton

“Ask me not where I live or what I like to eat . . . Ask me what I am living for and what I think is keeping me from living fully that.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

“Laugh and grow strong”
― Ignatius of Loyola

“Love is shown more in deeds than in words.”
― St. Ignatius of Loyola

“Act as if everything depended on you; trust as if everything depended on God.”
― Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“Go forth and set the world on fire.”
― St. Ignatius Loyola

“The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.”
― Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer