428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.

Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about.

John 3:16 is not about forgiveness of sins, no matter the guy with rainbow hairin the end zone who's holding up that sign. John 3:16 is about life now.

Spirituality has thus come to be regarded by the world as those futile, self-torturing excesses of strange men and women who lived in far-off, benighted places and times. Accordingly, the One who came to give abundance of life is commonly thought of as a cosmic stuffed shirt, whose excessive "spirituality" probably did not allow him normal bodily functions and certainly would not permit him to throw a frisbee or tackle someone in a football game.

The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

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

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

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

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