Bill Johnson Quotes

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship.

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

Those who think their intellect will keep them from deception are already deceived.

Our assignment is to see the dominion of God realized into people's lives. It is not an overpowering control, it is a life-giving, liberating experience with the almighty God, who is an ultimate, perfect Father who loves to bring liberty and freedom to His people.

You know your mind is renewed when the impossible looks logical.

When I live out of discipline, I'm admired - When I live out of passion, I'm contagious.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Presence always wins out over principles.

If you make history with God, He'll make history with you

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.

In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

In His mercy, God gives us the level of revelation that our character is prepared to handle.

We must dream so big that without the support that comes through favor with God and man, we could never accomplish what is in our hearts.

Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn't said.

The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.

I cannot live in mediocrity, content with merely knowing that there is more of God to experience and explore -and then do nothing about it. Truths that are not experienced are, in effect, more like theories than truths. Whenever God reveals truth to us He is inviting us into a divine encounter.

People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

The way you silence fear is to give attention to faith.

Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.

We owe the world an encounter with God

God is not pre-occupied with sin, He’s already dealt with it.