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“If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.”
― Bill Johnson

“Complaining proves nothing but that you can hear the voice of the Devil”
― Bill Johnson

“Rule with the heart of a servant. Serve with the heart of a king.”
― Bill Johnson

“People often come to me and ask me to pray for them, that they would discover God’s will for their life. I already know God’s will for their life – heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers. They say, ‘Yes, but I need to know if I should be a schoolteacher or a missionary.’ I say, ‘Well, just pick one, and then heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers.’ Or they will say, ‘I just don’t know whether I should be married or should be single.’ I reply, ‘What do you want to be?’ ‘I really want to be married.’ ‘Then get married... and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out devils, cleanse lepers.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“In my own pursuit of God, I often became preoccupied with ME! It was easy to think that being constantly aware of my faults and weakness was humility. It’s not! If I’m the main subject, talking incessantly about my weaknesses, I have entered into the most subtle form of pride.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“I can’t afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.”
― Bill Johnson, Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda

“Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java

“If you assign ten new believers the task of studying the Bible to find God’s heart for this generation, not one of them would conclude that spiritual gifts are not for today. You have to be taught that stuff!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.”
― Bill Johnson, Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda

“Doesn’t it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn’t it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don’t feel very precious?”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“God has called us into a place of tenderness, when nobody is looking, when there are no great decisions to make, when it’s just him and me in a hotel room, with no one to pray for, no one to preach to. When it is just two people in a room, that’s where you learn. That’s where you learn his heartbeat. That’s where you learn the presence. That’s where you learn the voice. It’s in the moments when nobody is watching, nobody is evaluating how good you’re doing. When it is just you and him.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“His presence is not upon us to be commandeered or directed by us. Instead, we are tools in his hand. If there is a dove resting on my shoulder in the natural (and I love that phrase ‘and remained’) and I don’t want it to fly away, how am I going to walk around this room? Every step will be with the dove in mind. Every movement I make will be to preserve what I value most.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“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.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Heaven is filled with absolute, perfect, confidence in God. This world is filled with absolute mistrust. And you and I will always reflect the nature of the world we are most aware of. What you live conscious of is what you will reproduce in the world around you. I try to live in such a way that nothing ever gets bigger in my awareness than my conscious awareness of the presence of God upon me. I don’t care what the problem is; if it’s an international crisis or a personal issue, the moment that problem gets bigger than my awareness of the presence of God on me, then I will live in reaction to a problem.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Most Christians repent enough to get forgiven, but not enough to see the Kingdom.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“The doctrine stating signs and wonders are no longer needed because we have the Bible was created by people who hadn’t seen God’s power and needed an explanation to justify their own powerless churches.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Being willing to do what you are not qualified to do is sometimes what qualifies you.”
― Bill Johnson, Hosting the Presence: Unveiling Heaven's Agenda

“Christians who live out of who they really are cannot be crippled by the opinions of others. They no longer work to fit into other people’s expectations; they burn with the realization of who the Father says they are.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java

“That depth at which he goes in me determines how far he goes out of me. It’s a personal encounter. It’s not our commitment to healing. It’s not our commitment to evangelism. It’s not our commitment to any of these things. It’s our commitment to the person, to live faithfully with a person.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“It is abnormal for a Christian not to have an appetite for the impossible. It has been written into our spiritual DNA to hunger for the impossibilities around us to bow at the name of Jesus.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Jesus did not go through all His sufferings so we could go to church; He did what He did to atone for sin. And by doing so He made it possible to raise up a new breed of world changers, those who could maintain the standard He set in love, purity and power. This reality is one of the great prophecies that Jesus spoke: “Greater works than these shall you do because I go to the Father” (see John 14:12). Not only does Jesus’ life compel us to follow the miracle worker, so do His promises.”
― Bill Johnson, Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth

“You are God’s idea, and He longs to see the treasure that is in your heart. As we learn to dream with God we become co-laborers with Him.”
― Bill Johnson, Dreaming With God: Co-laboring With God for Cultural Transformation: Secrets to Redesigning Your World Through God's Creative Flow

“So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom. 10:17). Notice it does not say, faith comes from having heard. The whole nature of faith implies a relationship with God that is current. The emphasis is on hearing…in the now!”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings.”
― Bill Johnson

“This generation is a generation of risk takers. And not all the risks taken will be seen as real faith. Some will come to light as steps of foolishness and presumption. But they must be taken just the same. How else can we learn? Make room for risk takers in your life that don’t bat a thousand. They will inspire you to the greatness available in serving a great God.”
― Bill Johnson, When Heaven Invades Earth: A Practical Guide to a Life of Miracles

“Having a renewed mind is often not an issue of whether or not someone is going to heaven, but of how much of heaven he or she wants in his or her life right now.”
― Bill Johnson, The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind: Access to a Life of Miracles

“When the high point of Christian celebration is the fact that we have done something that is humanly possible, something that we can do without God, no matter how noble it is, then we are at a real low point in Christian manifestation and demonstration. Our assignment is to invade the impossible – those things that cannot be accomplished without God.”
― Bill Johnson, Manifesto for a Normal Christian Life

“Fear is the guard dog that is protecting the fortress of spiritual prosperity. When the dog starts barking, we know that the treasure he is guarding is near.”
― Bill Johnson, Spiritual Java