The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart. Dallas Willard More Quotes by Dallas Willard More Quotes From Dallas Willard 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. Dallas Willard reading prayer believe Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most. Dallas Willard life-is needs firsts The greatest challenge the church faces today is to be authentic disciples of Jesus. Dallas Willard church challenges jesus The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul. Dallas Willard ecology soul kingdoms Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement. Dallas Willard confused reality ideas One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God. Dallas Willard effort missing hair Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true. Dallas Willard knowing mean believe 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 have-faith ideas jesus There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve. Dallas Willard apprenticeship problem jesus When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone! Dallas Willard light darkness gone 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 ladder by which the angels of God may ascend from and descend into human life. Thus the disciple stands as an envoy or a receiver by which the kingdom of God is conveyed into every quarter of human affairs. Dallas Willard angel heaven jesus The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. Dallas Willard earth people jesus Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with Dallas Willard expression heart reality The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength? ... If it fails to set a lovable God--a radiant, happy, friendly, accessible, and totally competent being--before ordinary people, we have gone wrong Dallas Willard soul heart people Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible. Dallas Willard kingdoms faces jesus To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. Dallas Willard our-lives body And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us. Dallas Willard initiative speak humanity God will meet us and help us. Dallas Willard gods-will helping You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things and beyond that is your work in life which isn't the same as your ministry and then beyond that is your life. And this is what God is more interested in than your work or your ministry-what He gets out of your life is the person you become. And He has plans for you, and these are long-range plans. Dallas Willard jobs two long The soul's order is re-established in God through the law. Dallas Willard soul law order
