BILL JOHNSON

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.

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.

Jesus is the most normal Christian in the Bible.

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

I cannot afford to have one thought in my mind that is not in His

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.

Compromise is the welcome mat to deception.

Fear looks like wisdom to those without risk.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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.

Fear is just faith in the wrong person.

Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness!

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

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

The way you think either expresses or undermines faith.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

We owe the world an encounter with God