Bill Johnson Quotes

A person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him.

If you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you already have the Holy Spirit living within you.

A holy spirit lives within you.

The soul lets no man go without some visitations and holy-days of a diviner presence.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

Let yourselves be led by the Holy Spirit, with freedom and, please, do not cage the Holy Spirit

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

The forms are evanescent; but the spirit, being in the Lord and of the Lord, is immortal and omnipresent.

When I realized this fear, this uncertainty, this potential of dying, I guess I needed something greater to hold onto than what we can see, touch, and smell-and that was the spiritual aspect of God, the nature of God and his relationship to humans.

If we approach with faith, we too will see Jesus... for the Eucharistic table takes the place of the crib. Here the Body of the Lord is present, wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in the rays of the Holy Spirit.

If our prayer is “Dear God, please use me to be of service,” then that is what we will be. And it is not for us to judge either the size or value of our gifts. Our job is to try to get out of the way, to defer to the spirit moving within us and become open channels for the flow of God’s love.

Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the spirit of God dwelleth in you?

For me, God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit have always been my closest friends in this journey.

To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity.

Add to this occasional journeys, ministers’ meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory.

To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God.

When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.

Life in this world is an attempt to see God.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

When the Spirit is present, people are not offended when you share your feelings about the gospel.

There are times when I draw near enough to touch Him, then I know that He has been there all the time

When we are enjoying the conscious presence of God, we are fulfilling the tenets of our salvation.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.