428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

God’s address is at the end of your rope.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are ‘societies’ of Jesus.

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.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It’s the person you become.

Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you’re going to do that, you’d better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle – a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.

My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing – by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

It is confidence in the invariably overriding intention of God for our good, with respect to all the evil and suffering that may befall us on life’s journey, that secures us in peace and joy.

Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual’s character or of the life that lies endlessly before.

And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That’s the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.