Bill Johnson Quotes

The Gospels and the rest of the New Testament reflect the life of Jesus, what it means for us & what it means for the world.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

It's like every day I'm born anew, without Jesus.

As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving.

An Apostle is a missionary, bearing testimony of the reality and divinity of Jesus Christ in all the world.

Following Jesus is not about diligently keeping a set of rules or conjuring up the moral fortitude to lead good lives. It's about loving God and enjoying Him

Easter is about Jesus: the Jesus who announced God's saving, sovereign kingdom.

Jesus Christ rose from the grave.' With this proclamation, the Christian church began. This may be the fundamental element of Christian faith; certainly it is the most radical.

Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept fr...om seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.

Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.

Who was Jesus? God saves.

Life is about Jesus. We are not here to tell our story, but His.

It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me.

As for me, my charter is Jesus Christ, the inviolable charter is His cross and His death and resurrection, and faith through Him.

There is one subject in religion, about which you can never know too much. That subject is Jesus Christ the Lord.

Jesus raised the standard high so we would realize we couldn’t possibly do it without a savior.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did.

It's just that for so many people that I know, Christianity's this matter of... it has everything to do with morals. Christianity is a religion about morals. And they will even talk about Jesus. And they will say kids need to know about Jesus so they won't smoke, drink, or dance, or go with girls that do, and all that kind of thing. And I kinda go, 'That's not why people need to know about Jesus. The only reason - The only possible excuse for talking about Jesus is because we need a Savior.'

They who seek Christ are already being sought of him.

Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.

Jesus Christ is to me the outstanding personality of all time, all history, both as Son of God and as Son of Man. Everything he ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, dead or alive. There is no easy middle ground to stroll upon. You either accept Jesus or reject him.

My book centers in on the New Testament, the goal being to help a person who wants to understand the Bible to see how what God did as revealed in the New Testament will reveal to them their own personal story.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.