Quotes from Dallas Willard
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.
- Dallas Willard
Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children".
- Dallas Willard
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
- 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
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.
- Dallas Willard
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
- Dallas Willard
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
- Dallas Willard
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
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
- Dallas Willard
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.
- Dallas Willard
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.
- Dallas Willard
What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish.
- Dallas Willard