428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

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 for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.

Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see as the struggle OF faith is really the struggle to act as IF we had faith when in fact we do not.

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.