428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

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 inhabitant.

That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and it has affected us in many ways. That's a part of the idea that professing is enough.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God, which non-Christians do not have. Apart from Christian spiritual formation as described here, I believe there is little value in claiming exclusiveness for the Christian way.

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that his other attributes do not preclude thought, but only ensure that he is certainly the greatest thinker of the human race: "the most intelligent person who ever lived on earth"