Quotes from Dallas Willard

He is going to create a community of loving, creative, intelligent, loyal, faithful, and powerful human beings, and they are going to rule the earth. It is going to come to pass. If you want to be a part of that, just get on board.

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsic futility of relying on human abilities to provide resolution to our problems.

Develop the habit of seeing the world through God's eyes.

We are not only asking to be forgiven, we are asking for guidance and wisdom and strength to respond differently tomorrow.

Anyone who is not a continual student of Jesus, and who nevertheless reads the great promises of the Bible as if they were for him or her, is like someone trying to cash a check on another person's account. At best, it succeeds only sporadically.

Such planning should include identifying the things in your life that you believe trouble Jesus—impatience, overeating, lying, or whatever it may be for you.

You are an unceasing spiritual being, created for an intimate and transforming friendship with the creative Community that is the Trinity.

The narrow gate is not, as so often assumed, doctrinal correctness. The narrow gate is obedience—and the confidence in Jesus necessary to it.

The people who love God with all their heart are those whose will is totally devoted to what is good for God.

Nowhere is it more important to be in a conversational relationship with God than in our prayer life.

He teaches us how to be in prayer what we are in life and how to be in life what we are in prayer.

An act of faith in the biblical tradition is always undertaken in an environment of knowledge and is inseparable from it.