Dallas Willard Quotes

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.

If we are right on the inside, we will address these issues straight-forwardly and take a stand on them, and, if necessary, die for them. We will be that committed.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition.

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.

In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.

We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of the human personality.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes.

I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul.

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible.

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral.

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

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.

Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

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.