Bill Johnson Quotes

I just think that trusting God means we're going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we're never going to understand them all.

The future belongs to God.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

We may be in the dark about what God is *doing*, but we are not in the dark about God.

Sometimes God's ways are not our ways. He may do something that seems unclear or even contradictory. We have to trust Him even when we don't understand Him.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

To the mind, God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.

When the Soul that is sprung from God's Word and Will is entered into its own desire to will of itself, it will run in mere uncertainty till it return to its Original again.

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Sometimes I haven't understood why he has done things and why things happened, but I know that God has a plan.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

Most of us can't even begin to imagine.

If God had wanted these two rivers to be navigable, he could have effected it simply by a fiat, and it would be an infringement of the rights of providence to improve that which, for reasons not to be understood, it had wished to remain imperfect.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

We are all children of a powerful and great God. Of a God who isn't always going to end - things are not always going to end up the way you want them. His will is not always going to be yours.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

I think God wants the best for me.

The future belongs to God.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.