Quotes from Bill Johnson

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Faith must rise beyond the recognised norm into a lifestyle that accurately represents the victorious Son of God.

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

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

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

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

The best way to honor past accomplishments is by building on top of their breakthroughs.

God is the ultimate steward. He even turns our tears into the seeds of a hope filled future.

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.

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

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

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

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

The Bible was meant to be read by those in love. It's sad when it's not.

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

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

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.

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