Quotes from Dallas Willard

Anger indulged, instead of simply waved off, always has in it an element of self-righteousness and vanity. Find a person who has embraced anger, and you find a person with a wounded ego.

First, we must learn from him the reason why we live and why we do the things we do.

Jesus is the expression of the love of God for us, and in him we see the many ways God deals with people in mercy and grace.

Put his words into practice and find them to be true.

We automatically remember what makes a real difference in our life. The secret of the great teacher is to speak words, to foster experiences, that impact the active flow of the hearer's life. That is what Jesus did by the way he taught. He tied his teachings to concrete events that make up the hearers' lives. He aimed his sayings at their hearts and habits as these were revealed in their daily lives.

Humility leads to perfect death. Humility means the giving up of self and the taking of the place of perfect nothingness before.

You know something when you are able to deal with it as it is on an appropriate basis of thought and experience.

The full manifestation of the power of this death in your disposition and conduct depends upon the measure in which the Holy Spirit imparts the power of the death of Christ.

Religion as actually lived, not as some figment of the academic imagination, always claims to involve knowledge of how things are.

What is his load? It is to bring the reign of God into ordinary human life. That is why he came the way he did, lived the way he did and died the way he did. In the midst of a world of ordinary human life he was pulling the load of bringing the kingdom of God into ordinary human life. That was his message. And his message was to everyone.

Humble yourself. This is your one duty.

We should not try to love that person; we should train to become the kind of person who would love them. Only then can the ideal of love pass into a real possibility and practice. Our aim under love is not to be loving to this or that person, or in this or that kind of situation, but to be a person possessed by love as an overall character of life.