Abby Johnson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  • When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

  • We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.

  • When we look at a child, we see that sense of fullness, of intrinsic aliveness, of joy in being, is not the result of something else. There is value in just being oneself, it is not because of something one does or doesn't do. It is there in the beginning, when we are children, but slowly it gets lost.

  • If I have this child? Why wasn’t it obvious to me that I already had a child, who was growing inside of me? Once you are pregnant, there is no if. That child, though tiny and in an early stage of development, already exists!

  • Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

  • The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.

  • When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them.

  • Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

  • I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.