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Famous Dallas Willard Quotes

“Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning. Effort is action. Earning is attitude. You have never seen people more active than those who have been set on fire by the grace of God.”

Dallas Willard

Life Life to the Full, Christian Herald (UK), 14 April 2001
Source: The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus's Essential Teachings on Discipleship

“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”

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

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.”

Dallas Willard

Source: The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

“A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?”

Dallas Willard

Source: Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ

“I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.”

Dallas Willard

Dallas Willard Quotes about God

“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its prime sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.”

Dallas Willard

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

Dallas Willard

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.”

Dallas Willard

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

“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