Bill Johnson Quotes

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

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

My responsibility is to obey, to surrender my heart and to yield myself to the will of God. It is in the process of obedience that we gain understanding. You can’t get the peace that passes understanding until you give up your right to understand.

If we cling to belief in God, we cannot likewise have faith, since faith is not clinging but letting go.

Into thy hands, O Lord. Into thy hands.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Faith is the first step to understanding. Either it's the Word of an infallible God, the fallible words of men, or faith in what you personally believe. You've got to have faith in something. Believe me.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

More than anything, praying just helps me to concentrate and let go of things that don't matter in that moment. It gives me peace knowing I'm in good hands.

You're always trying to feel confident and to feel good about yourself, but what it comes down to is really giving up to someone else. Having faith.

Prayer begins where our power ends.

I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.

You are accepted. You are accepted, accepted by that which is greater than you, and the name of which you do not know. Do not ask for the name now; perhaps you will find it later. Do not try to do anything now; perhaps later you will do much. Do not seek for anything; do not perform anything; do not intend anything. Simply accept the fact that you are accepted!

I'd rather have all my questions unanswered and walk with God than not walk with God and have all my questions answered.

At the end of the day, when I am lying in bed and I know the chances of any of our theology being exactly right are a million to one, I need to know that God has things figured out, that if my math is wrong we are still going to be okay. And wonder is that feeling we get when we let go of our silly answers, our mapped out rules that we want God to follow. I don't think there is any better worship than wonder.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don't worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

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.

Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.