Quote

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the meaning of terms from the context in use.

Dallas Willard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Use
Bible
Book
Terms
Certainly
Meaning
Philosophy
Courses
Derive
Course
Context
Term
Theology

More quotes by Dallas Willard

Image
What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish
Dallas Willard
Image
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Dallas Willard
Image
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
Dallas Willard
Image
Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.
Dallas Willard
Image
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
Image
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
Dallas Willard
Image
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions.
Dallas Willard
Image
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.
Dallas Willard
Image
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.
Dallas Willard
Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
Dallas Willard
Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
Dallas Willard
Image
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
Dallas Willard
Image
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.
Dallas Willard
Image
I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to heaven, no one will be able to say, I merited this.
Dallas Willard
Image
The kingdom of God is the true ecology of the human soul.
Dallas Willard
Image
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
Dallas Willard
Image
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
Dallas Willard
Image
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
Dallas Willard
Image
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation.
Dallas Willard
Image
In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we have people who pretend that they can, but it simply isn't true.
Dallas Willard