428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.

Does Christ commend the famous ‘apathy’ of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

We truly live at the mercy of our ideas; this is never more true than with our ideas about God.

The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it’s who you become. That’s what you will take into eternity.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a ‘bad mood.’

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.

The prospering of God’s cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.