428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

Love means will-to-good, willing the benefit of what or who is loved. We may say we love chocolate cake, but we don't. Rather, we want to eat it. That is desire, not love. In our culture we have a great problem distinguishing between love and desire, but it is essential that we do so.

No, you don't have to certain about anything you're not certain about. In fact, certainty is not something you can choose, anyway. Certainty and uncertainty are not things that are under the will.

Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Living in the kingdom of God is a matter of living with God's action in our lives.

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.

There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.

We can fail to know because we do not want to know - because what would be known would require us to believe and act in ways contrary to what we want.

Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.