428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpness with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe for our future role in it (John 14:2). He always has the best information on everything and certainly also on the things that matter most in human life. Let us now hear his teachings on who has the good life, on who is among the truly blessed.

In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual human beings are not. This does not diminish him. Far from it. He would be a lesser God if he could not change his intentions when he thinks it is appropriate.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.