Bill Johnson Quotes

The favor of God does not bless self-promotion

You know, God will give favor to anyone who will believe Him. Every day you should confess that you have favor everywhere you go. God will begin to open doors that you wouldn't believe.

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

People said, That's great for your career, but what have you done? I kept feeling I had to defend myself.

I do not need a trophy to tell myself that I am the best.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

I don't find it very helpful to know who else is going up for stuff, generally.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. You know what you've done and what you've been through to get to where you are.

Deflating inflated egos is so important to God that He offers to help.

Self-improveme nt is no more God's plan than self-salvation.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

If we do the ordinary, God will add an extra to it.

Each new day beckons you to walk on the road of self-transcendence. We transcend ourselves, we do not compete with others. We compete only with our previous achievements, and we get joy. Life is nothing but a perpetual possibility.

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of.

When you face adversity, you need to remind yourself that whatever is trying to defeat you could very well be what God will use to promote you.

The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

Do not expect God always to give you His thrilling minutes, but learn to live in the domain of drudgery by the power of God.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

Every element of our own self-reliance must be put to death by the power of God.

The movement of grace toward gratitude brings us from the package of self-obsessed madness to a spiritual awakening.

Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.