Eric Johnston famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Beaten paths are for beaten men.
-- Eric Johnston

#Men #Path
The dinosaurs's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better.
-- Eric Johnston

#Food #Lessons #Dinosaurs
The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.
-- Eric Johnston

#Future #Writing #Past
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.
-- Eric Johnston

#Rose #Bigs
Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.
-- Eric Johnston

#Government #Years #Rushing
Movies are immortal art - the first new art since Greek drama.
-- Eric Johnston

#Art #Drama #Greek
And the word is capitalism. We are too mealy-mouthed. We fear the word capitalism is unpopular. So we talk about the free enterprise system and run to cover in the folds of the flag and talk about the American Way of Life.
-- Eric Johnston

#Running #Flags #Way
The things a man believes most profoundly are rarely on the surface of his mind or tongue. Newly acquired notions, decisions based on expediency, the fashionable ideas of the moment are right on top of the pile, ready to be displayed in bright after dinner conversation. But the ideas that make up a man's philosophy of life are somewhere way down below.
-- Eric Johnston

#Philosophy #Believe #Men

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.
A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

Eric Johnston famous quotes

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