Quotes about Integrity
An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be.
— Dallas Willard
The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.
— Dallas Willard
And with respect to feelings that are inherently injurious and wrong, their strategy is not one of resisting them in the moment of choice but of living in such a way that they do not have such feelings at all, or at least do not have them in a degree that makes it hard to decide against them when appropriate.
— Dallas Willard
The best physical, chemical, and other scientific knowledge will not tell us what to do and who to be.
— Dallas Willard
True Christlikeness, true companionship with Christ, comes at the point where it is hard not to respond as he would.
— Dallas Willard
No good tree produces bad fruit, nor any bad tree good fruit…. The good person, from the good treasured up in his heart, produces what is good. LUKE 6:43—45
— Dallas Willard
Put his words into practice and find them to be true.
— Dallas Willard
Serving really involves giving people what is good for them, not merely pursuing their approval and granting their desires.
— Dallas Willard
In charting one's course in life, it is important never to forget that many things that cannot be called wrong or evil are nevertheless not good for us.
— Dallas Willard
if you sufficiently dismember yourself, you will not be able to do any wrong action. This is the logic by which Jesus reduces the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees to the absurd.
— Dallas Willard
In every concrete situation we have to ask ourselves, not "Did I do the specific things in Jesus' illustrations?" but "Am I being the kind of person Jesus' illustrations are illustrations of?
— Dallas Willard
Bluntly, to serve God well we must think straight; and crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. And when the crooked thinking gets elevated into group orthodoxy, whether religious or secular, there is always, quite literally, "hell to pay." That is, hell will take its portion, as it has repeatedly done in the horrors of world history.
— Dallas Willard