You can turn on and off paging of specific commands with the pager.<cmd> setting, in this case pager.status:
If the value is boolean, turns on or off pagination of the output of a particular Git subcommand when writing to a tty. Otherwise, turns on pagination for the subcommand using the pager specified by the value of pager.<cmd>.
Run the following to enable paging for status subcommand:
git config --global pager.status true
or manually add the following to the end of your ~/.gitconfig:
[pager]
status = true
If you just want to turn paging on or off for a specific invocation, you can use option -p/--paginate respectively -P/--no-pager to the git command itself as well, e.g.:
git -p status