Top 189 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Johnson

If we had decided on January 5, in the new House of Representatives, to make no new spending bills, the debt ceiling would've still been hit, because, those are bills that are coming in as a result of purchases and commitments made by the administration and the previous Congress.

There was no avoiding the fact that we were going to hit our debt ceiling.

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.

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

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

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

We owe the world an encounter with God

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

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

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

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

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

Your courage draws people out of complacency into their destiny.

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

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't let your past dictate your future.

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.

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

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

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

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

Every loss is temporary. Every victory is eternal.

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.

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