Bill Johnson Quotes

God's interventions are miracles: events that cannot happen by merely natural agents but only by a supernatural agent. They no more interfere with our free will than natural events like earthquakes. We choose how to respond to them.

What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Every miracle brings the release of glory.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

If you're willing to answer yes to a God outside of nature, then there's nothing inconsistent with God on rare occasions choosing to invade the natural world in a way that appears miraculous.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

When the gods come among men, they are not known.

Science simply cannot adjudicate the issue of God's possible superintendence of nature.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

God comes at last when we think he is farthest off.

Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind and the lightning. To the believer, clouds of angels and confessors, and martyrs, armies of the sainted and the saved, were ever stooping over their struggling brethren upon earth, raising, encouraging, and supporting them.

I totally give credit to God for all of this stuff, because if I had tried to make these things happen, I couldn't have. To have all these things happen has been absolutely amazing. The road that I'm on is a path that I didn't choose. It chose me. I'm just trying to walk it, and to do the best that I can to honor and respect it.

A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. What’s that if it’s not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!

If God made the natural laws, why could he not violate them when it was a particularly significant moment for him to do so? And if you accept the idea that Christ was also divine, which I do, then his Resurrection is not in itself a great logical leap.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.