Dallas Willard Quotes

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are co...

Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we s...

I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed...

Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his ...

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to h...

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is a...

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than wi...

We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe i...

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God h...

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsi...

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and lear...

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of s...

Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, t...

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done...

The first fruit of love is the musing of the mind on God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever u...

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, no...

He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising t...

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character i...

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. ...

(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with ...

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful bu...

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of ...

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and char...

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached l...

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecut...