Quotes from Dallas Willard

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.

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

The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

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.

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat.

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

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.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

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.

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well.

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

God will meet us and help us.

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.

God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.