Bill johnson quotes

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.

We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.

Transformed people transform cities.

No one has ever overdosed on encouragement.

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

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?

The best way to prepare yourself for your own miracle is to rejoice in somebody else's.

Great faith doesn't come out of great effort, but out of great surrender.

You won’t have to watch what you say if you watch what you think.

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

We don't believe because we understand. We understand because we believe.

Before God, I'm an intimate. Before people, I'm a servant. Before the powers of hell, I'm a ruler, with no tolerance for their influence. Wisdom knows which role to fulfill at the proper time

Don't let your past dictate your future.

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.

There's something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.

It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

Abiding in peace makes us a threat to any storm.

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

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

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

Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

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

I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will spend the rest of my life exploring what could happen through the life of one who is willing to cultivate the God-given appetite to see impossibilities bow to the name of Jesus.

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

God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.

Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Our faith can only go as far as our awareness of Gods goodness

What is the will of God? On earth as it is in heaven. If it doesn’t exist there, it’s not supposed to exist here. If it does exist there, it’s supposed to exist here.

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

Once you've left the concept of family, you've left the concept of kingdom

Automatically thinking ‘everything that happens is God’s will’ is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn’t fighting the Father’s will when He raised the dead.

I will not lower the standard of the Bible to my level of experience.

Jesus ruined every funeral he attended including his own.

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.

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

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

When you're willing to do what you're unqualified to do, that's what qualifies you.

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

The kingdom of God must never be reduced to talk, ideas and principles. The kingdom of God is power

Faith is generated in the atmosphere of experiencing truth.

God doesn't have to try to do supernatural things. He is supernatural. He would have to try to not be. If He is invited to a situation, we should expect nothing but supernatural invasion.

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source.

It is unnatural for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible.

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.

A heart of faith is anchored in the unseen

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

We owe the world an encounter with God

Sacrifice is a step beyond convenience.

God will never violate His Word, but He doesn’t seem to mind violating our understanding of His Word.

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.

If you engage with the Holy spirit because you want to merely be effective in ministry, then you're developing professional intimacyand what do we call people who are intimate as a profession?

The mind is either at war with God or it is being renewed. There is no middle ground.

When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

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

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

So Jesus came and modelled a lifestyle of power and purity because the power of the Spirit of God was on him. He was trying to show those of us who would follow what life would be like in someone who had no sin and was completely empowered by the Spirit of God.

If you live cautiously, your friends will call you wise. You just won't move many mountains

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.

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.

Part of our problem is this: we are accustomed only to doing things for God that are not impossible.

Skills can be taught. It's tough to teach heart. Talent is fairly common.

What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice.

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

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

I can't afford to have thoughts in my head about me that God doesn't have in His.

God set the standard for giving love that demands nothing in return.

Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.

Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.

Because God is better than we think we have to change the way we think.

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

The enemy lies to make the problems we face appear larger than the solutions we carry.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

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

People follow courage, not titles.

Obedience is not measured by our ability to obey laws and principles, obedience is measured by our response to God’s voice.

Don’t be impressed by darkness. Jesus didn’t do the opposite of whatever the devil did. He did what He saw the Father doing… The moment I have a lesser sense of Him and a greater sense of the problem, I will live in reaction to the problem.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

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

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

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

Unbelief is safe, because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.

Any area of my life for which I have no hope is under the influence of a lie.

I finally discovered something - it's all about Jesus.

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

Compromise is the door through which deception enters.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

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

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

I try to live in such a way that nothing gets bigger than my awareness of God presence on my life.

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

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Jesus didn't accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.

You can redefine your external world by an internal experience with the love of God.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

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

There’s something amazing about unbelief – it is able to fulfill its own expectations. Unbelief is safe because it takes no risk and almost always gets what it expects. Then, after a person gets the answer for their unbelief, they can say, I told you so.

Our identity sets the tone for all we do and become. Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They don't work to fit into other people's expectations, but burn with the realization of who the Father. says they are.

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

Live in such a way that unless God shows up what you're attempting to do is bound to fail. This is the nature of the Gospel.

We need to remain childlike. Children don't dream of being insignificant.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

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.

It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.

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

We've not been assigned to hang out until He returns ”we've been given a message and a power that completely revolutionizes life. Why would anyone want to get up in the morning and not shape the course of world history?

Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did.

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.

One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.