Quotes about Divine
It is reasonable to expect that leading a divine conspiracy will require journalists, writers, artists, and scholars to carefully, accurately, and courageously expose the follies of our social institutions in government, business, religion, art, economics, engineering, medicine, law, finance, security, and education. This is where our Christian universities play perhaps the central role, if administrating the common flourishing is to occur in any meaningful way.
— Dallas Willard
The only way the devil can hurt God is through humans, and so he focuses upon us. His strategy is to try to frustrate God's purpose for humanity
— Dallas Willard
The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.
— Dallas Willard
God's own "kingdom," or "rule," is the range of his effective will, where what he wants done is done. The person of God himself and the action of his will are the organizing principles of his kingdom, but everything that obeys those principles, whether by nature or by choice, is within his kingdom.
— Dallas Willard
When you think "whirlwind," think "God is coming.
— Dallas Willard
Emergencies are opportunities to bring God into the realities of your life.
— Dallas Willard
That is not the way of God. It is asking, it is seeking, it is knocking.
— Dallas Willard
Religion as a historical human practice was therefore not of divine origin, and its developments and activities had to be of an entirely human origin.
— Dallas Willard
Prayer, it is rightly said, is the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.
— Dallas Willard
So, C. S. Lewis writes, our faith is not a matter of our hearing what Christ said long ago and "trying to carry it out." Rather, "The real Son of God is at your side. He is beginning to turn you into the same kind of thing as Himself. He is beginning, so to speak, to 'inject' His kind of life and thought, His Zoe [life], into you; beginning to turn the tin
— Dallas Willard
Set aside days to spend alone with God to seek his face and to imagine that face shining with joy as it looks at you. As the ancient Jewish benediction puts it: The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you [look right at you] And give you peace. (NUM. 6:24—26)
— Dallas Willard
Heaven is here and God is here, because God and his spiritual agents act here and are constantly available here.
— Dallas Willard