Dallas Willard Quotes

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.