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 WILLARDMost problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.
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The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are.
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Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.
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A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
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The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
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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.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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“Spirituality” wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
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What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.
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The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.
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We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.
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