428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence.

Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in union with God himself, who created and ultimately controls all other forces.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone!