black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

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.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn’t work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don’t work! We must have a coordination system.
DALLAS WILLARD

Machine Ourselves Road System Work
We are becoming who we will be-forever.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Live Opposite Yourself
When we receive God’s gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
DALLAS WILLARD

Act Action Come Gift God Life Ourselves
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
DALLAS WILLARD

Believe Culture Doubt Ideas Live Yourself
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
DALLAS WILLARD

God Heart Invitation Life Pilgrimage
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARD

Anand Thakur

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Dallas Willard Quotes