Bill Johnson Quotes

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.

I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.

After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, "Thy will be done". I would a thousand times rather that Gods' will should be done than my own.

In our competitive world we're taught to never quit trying, never give up, and never give in - so we don't hear much about surrendering. If winning is everything, surrendering is unthinkable. Even Christians would rather talk about winning, succeeding, overcoming, and conquering than yielding, submitting, obeying, and surrendering. But surrendering to God is the heart of worship.

You cannot hold God hostage (to your questions). He doesn’t owe you an answer. If you want the peace that passes understanding, you’re going to have to give up your right to understanding. It’s called trust.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God.

'Doing your own thing' and being a Christian is an oxymoron. As Christians, every day we need to be presenting ourselves before the Lord, thanking Him for His mercy and asking Him to make us more like Him by emptying us of our will, so God's will can be done.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.

It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that position, he is free from troubles; otherwise, he courts them.

A key to everything is surrender - to really come before the Lord and say, 'I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay' or 'God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.'

When I see Jesus Christ I simply want to be what He wants me to be.

There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.

The essence of surrender is getting out of God's way so that He can do in us what He also wants to do through us.

In order to have a peace that surpasses all understanding, you have to give up your right to understand

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do his will.

Let your constant practice be to offer yourself to God, that He may do with you what He pleases.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Make me what Thou wouldst have me. I bargain for nothing. I make no terms. I seek for no previous information whither Thou art taking me. I will be what Thou wilt make me, and all that Thou wilt make me. I say not, I will follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest, for I am weak, but I give myself to Thee, to lead me anywhither.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.