Bill Johnson Quotes

Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly.

You can't plant a seed and pick the fruit the next morning.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don't be discouraged if your progress seems slow.

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth.

You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions.

I love not rushing the process. Mind doesn't shift until it does, and when it does shift, it's right on time, not one second too late or too soon. People are like seeds waiting to sprout. We can't be pushed ahead of our own understanding.

The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds

Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.

The best technique is none at all.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

To the man who can perfectly practice inaction, all things are possible.

When you do not know the nature of the malady, leave it to nature; do not strive to hasten matters. For either nature will bring about the cure or it will itself reveal clearly what the malady really is.

Make incremental progress, change comes not by the yard, but by the inch.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

To go fast, row slowly.