Patience Johnson Quotes & Sayings

To live an oversized life is to make a mockery of your destiny. Many can't prosper because the life they are living is bigger than them. — Patience Johnson

A good leader doesn't have to know everything. Nobody knows everything that's why you surround yourself with people who are experts in different areas.

"That's what makes a good leader. — Patience Johnson

Till you understand yourself, you can't deal with anybody else. — Patience Johnson

The object of relationship, the object of love, is not that somebody else will complete you, nobody can complete you, if you think that without marriage your life is incomplete you better wake up from slumber. Have you ever asked if Jesus or Paul had ever waited for someone to complete them before fullfilling their purpose? We wouldn't have had the opportunity of reading his chapters in the new testament. — Patience Johnson

When the world says noway, God's people says Yahweh. — Patience Johnson

God is good at both comfort and challenge. You remember He says I am with you always, I will neither leave you nor forsake you, you are the apple of my eyes, you are a complete package, you don't need somebody to complete you, I know what you need. — Patience Johnson

I am not just wondering, God is ordering my footsteps and His words are lamp to my path. — Patience Johnson

Anything you are giving without a willing heart will never produce a good result. — Patience Johnson

Where is your focus today?
If another person is in your focus and they are responsible for every moment of your joy, you will always end up miserable. — Patience Johnson

Our religious activities nowadays are using law to condemn people rather than instructing men in righteousness. We have a lot of religious activities in the land but they are not bearing a lot of fruits. — Patience Johnson

Do not work at Walmart expecting to receive your salary from Microsoft. — Patience Johnson

Half of knowing who you are is knowing who you are not. Don't allow people mould you to what they have in mind. — Patience Johnson

Sometimes the things God gives or reveals to you in private is not meant for the public. — Patience Johnson

God doesn't expect us to be oblivious to the challenges life brings. But as long as Peter kept his eyes on Jesus the waves couldn't take him under. So look to God, stand on His Word, and recall His goodness. The Bible says, 'We must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away from it' (Hebrews 2:1 NASB). Do whatever it takes to keep your eyes on the Lord. — Patience Johnson

There is no advice, counselling, books that can make any marriage to work unless the male and female involved are ready to change. Change is the only way to make a progress and if you don't change you will remain in chase. Change is the proof that you are growing, if you are not changing, you are not growing. — Patience Johnson

God promotes you based on your heart not based on your head. Your head might be right but if your heart is not right you will mess up the promotion. Men looks at the outward but God looks at the heart. From the heart flows the issues of life. — Patience Johnson

What do you water right now in your life? Because whatever you water will take over your garden. Whatever you water will grow, whatever you irrigate in your imagination will grow. — Patience Johnson

Sometimes what we call failures are just a broken focus. Jesus is calling us back to focus. — Patience Johnson

I don't live by people's compliments because if I live by their compliments, I will die by their criticism. I have learnt not to live by bread alone; not by what people can feed me, I proceed from every word that comes out from the mouth of God. — Patience Johnson

Always try to fix what is broken so that when the blessings come, you will be able to receive it. This generation does a lot of right things for wrong reasons. — Patience Johnson

You can only discover yourself first before you can discover who other people are. — Patience Johnson

I think the church is failing today not because of lost of gospel but because of lost of focus. You start losing focus when you stop caring about what God cares about. When you lose focus, God will no longer back you in your endeavour. — Patience Johnson

Sometimes it is not just good enough to see what you can do, what your degree can do, your make-up, designer wardrobes, not what republicans or Democrats can do or what people can do but it is far much better to see what God can do. — Patience Johnson