God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Every Christian must strive to arrive at beliefs about God that faithfully reflect the realities of his or her life and experience,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I would say is the issue he is trying to address. Often in churches, we try to get people to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in our “putting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
