Bill Johnson Quotes

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit, that is, his very nature within us, for the asking, we will hardly take the trouble to ask for it.

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

Do not think that saintliness comes from occupation; it depends rather on what one is. The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we may make it holy.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.

When I understand that everything happening to me is to make me more Christlike, it resolves a great deal of anxiety.

The first word Jesus used in His earthly ministry was repent. Repent means to change the way you've been conditioned to think, and I believe that is the only way we are going to see the impact of the original concepts and idea of God.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

So let me tell you what I think about gods. I think a real god is not going to be so scared or angry that he tries to keep other people down…A real god doesn’t care about control. A real god already has control of everything that needs controlling. Real gods would want to teach you how to be just like them.

It took me a long time to understand that God is not the enemy of my enemies. God is not even the enemy of God's enemies.

We continue to think of new things in old ways.

We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

Our loving Heavenly Father wants us to become more like him. God understands that we get there not in an instant, but by taking one step at a time.

The patriarchal model of spirituality was, I think, a necessary step, as a baby learns to crawl before it walks.

I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.

Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.

A disciple is one who thinks, feels and acts like Jesus Christ. It is being conformed to the image of Christ as Romans 8:28-29 states-that God's No.1 purpose in our lives is to make us like Jesus.

A man may carry the whole scheme of Christian truth in his mind from boyhood to old age without the slightest effect upon his character and aims. It has had less influence than the multiplication table.

He meant the Kingdom was over, the Kingdom of Heaven, it was all finished. We shouldn't live as if it mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.... We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient, and we've got to study and think and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds, and then we'll build... The Republic of Heaven.

Strength comes from choosing to fully trust, pray, and praise. Our circumstances may not change, but in the process we change.