You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
DALLAS WILLARDWe are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
-
-
Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance.
DALLAS WILLARD -
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 -
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 -
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.
DALLAS WILLARD -
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Business is a primary arrangement on God’s part for people to love one another and serve one another.
DALLAS WILLARD -
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARD -
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?
DALLAS WILLARD -
Grace is not opposed to effort; it’s opposed to earning.
DALLAS WILLARD -
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel – the interfaces between the driver and the machine – is our spirit or heart.
DALLAS WILLARD -
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
DALLAS WILLARD -
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
DALLAS WILLARD -
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 -
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARD