{"author":"Dallas Willard","author_id":"Dallas+Willard","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["immortality","new-life","regeneration"],"id":9251,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["belief"],"id":33340,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["discipleship","faith"],"id":57981,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the keys of the kingdom and to the life of restful power in ministry and life that those keys open to us.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["grace"],"id":65669,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["belief","doubt","faith"],"id":67051,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["miracles","signs"],"id":72466,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"The first fruit of love is the musing of the mind on God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever upon the object. He who loves God is ravished and transported with the contemplation of God. 'When I awake, I am still with thee' (Psalm 139:18). The thoughts are as travelers in the mind. David's thoughts kept heaven-road. 'I am still with Thee.' God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory?... A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["god","love"],"id":80074,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"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 characteristic of Christlikeness, were put forth by him as illustrative of what might be expected of a new kind of person – one who intelligently and steadfastly seeks, above all else, to live within the rule of God and be possessed by the kind of righteousness that God himself has, as Matthew 6:33 portrays. Instead, Jesus did invite people to follow him into that sort of life from which behavior such as loving one’s enemies will seem like the only sensible and happy thing to do. For a person living that life, the hard thing to do would be to hate the enemy, to turn the supplicant away, or to curse the curser… True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["christ","christianity","christlikeness","faith","god","jesus","new-creation","righteousness","spirituality","true-religion"],"id":80810,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["character","god","decisions "],"id":86761,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"},{"text":"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.","author":"Dallas Willard","tags":["character","power"],"id":100960,"author_id":"Dallas+Willard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}