Top 200 Bill Johnson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When I live out of discipline, I’m admired – When I live out of passion, I’m contagious.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

54. “The transfiguration was a physical illustration of what the renewed mind looks like in the spiritual.”

— Bill Johnson

55. “When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn’t demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.”

— Bill Johnson

56. “People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.”

— Bill Johnson

57. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

58. “There’s something about valuing people not because they value you, but because you can see God in them.”

— Bill Johnson

59. “A powerless church has nothing for the devil to counterfeit.”

— Bill Johnson

60. “As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.”

— Bill Johnson

61. “God wants people to meet Him when they meet us.”

— Bill Johnson

62. “Royalty is my identity. Servanthood is my assignment. Intimacy with God is my life source. So, 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.”

— Bill Johnson

63. “Once you’ve left the concept of family, you’ve left the concept of kingdom.”

— Bill Johnson

64. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

66. “Responding to truth will keep you safe. Reacting to error will only create another error.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

69. “Jesus didn’t accomplish everything so that you could accomplish nothing.”

— Bill Johnson

70. “My history shouts the power of the blood of Jesus. My presence demonstrates the absolute love, affection and purpose of God for my life. My future is drawing me into a hope-filled life that has a purpose of saying, ‘on earth as it is in Heaven.’”

— Bill Johnson

71. “Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

73. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

74. “Radical obedience always gives priority to what God has said over what He hasn’t said.”

— Bill Johnson

75. “Living in regret will become your biggest regret.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

77. “Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

79. “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?”

— Bill Johnson

80. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

81. “While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

83. “Jesus took what I deserved so I could get what He deserved.”

— Bill Johnson

84. “It’s a great tragedy when the Bible is interpreted by those who are not in love.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

86. “Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.”

— Bill Johnson

87. “All fruit grows through abiding, not striving.”

— Bill Johnson

88. “For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

90. “Some people need a theology of an angry God to justify their anger against sinners.”

— Bill Johnson

91. “Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.”

— Bill Johnson

92. “Let me put this in my words: Solomon asked for a hearing heart, and God said, Okay, I’ll give you wisdom. The implication is that wisdom is not just a deposit made into somebody who now has all the answers. It implies that the ability to hear the voice of God is the key to wisdom. Wisdom, then, is a relational fruit.”

— Bill Johnson

93. “Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head.”

— Bill Johnson

94. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

95. “In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It’s a different day.”

— Bill Johnson

96. “We reign with the heart of a servant and serve with the heart of a king, all for the benefit of the people around us. Rulers in God’s Kingdom never rule for their own sake. It is always for the sake of others.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

98. “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.”

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson

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

— Bill Johnson