Quotes from Bill Johnson

All of God's judgments are aimed at whatever interferes with love.

While he never contradicts His Word, He is very comfortable contradicting our understanding of it. Those who feel safe because of their intellectual grasp of Scriptures enjoy a false sense of security. None of us has a full grasp of Scripture, but we all have the Holy Spirit. He is our common denominator who will always lead us into truth. But to follow Him, we must be willing to follow off the map—to go beyond what we know. To do so successfully we must recognize His presence above all.

There is a great difference between the way Jesus did ministry and the way it typically is done today. He was completely dependent on what the Father was doing and saying. He illustrated this lifestyle after His Holy Spirit baptism. He followed the Holy Spirit's leading, even when it seemed unreasonable, which it often did.

Jesus gave people the right to disbelieve it all if there was no demonstration of power upon His ministry. I hunger for the day when the Church will make the same statement to the world. If we're not doing the miracles that Jesus did, you don't have to believe us.

Passionless leaders cost everyone who follows them.

This anointing is what enabled Jesus to do only what He saw His Father do, and to say only what He heard His Father say. It was the Holy Spirit that revealed the Father to Jesus.

Grace is "God's empowerment to do what we are called to do.

The spirits of hell are at war against the anointing, for without the anointing mankind is no threat to their dominion.

Seeing a Kingdom culture established on earth is the dream of God, and it must become the dream of His people.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

The quest for the face of God has two central dimensions—the quest for His presence and the quest for His favor.

The realm beyond reason is the world of obedience to God.