Dallas Willard Quotes
- You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
- Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
- Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.
- The first act of love is always the giving of attention.
- The will is transformed by experience, not information.
- It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.
- The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
- Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance
- No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him…
- We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act…
- The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.
- The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
- We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.
- The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the…
- God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious…
- The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.
- The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
- The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of…
- Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest…
- The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.