“ 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
“ The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant. Dallas Willard
“ If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work. Dallas Willard
“ Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which p… Dallas Willard
“ Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do. 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
“ This present universe is only one element in the kingdom of God. But it is a very wonderful and important one. And within it the Logos, the now risen Son of man, is currently preparing for us to join… Dallas Willard
“ Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them that ask, and so forth. These responses, generally and rightly understood to be… Dallas Willard
“ We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true. Dallas Willard
“ Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s l… Dallas Willard
“ The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said. Dallas Willard
“ He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire course of world history (Rev. 1:5) while simultaneously preparing the rest of the universe… Dallas Willard
“ Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions of Asia, South America and Africa were led to believe that the best we can ho… Dallas Willard
“ Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies f… Dallas Willard
“ We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you do… Dallas Willard
