Dallas Willard Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love".

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Father, Tired

• The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

  Dallas Willard

  Prayer, Father, Thinking

• My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Believe, Home

• No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed in using him for our purposes. Anyone who thinks this is a problem has seriously underestimated the intelligence and agility of our Father in the heavens. He will not be tricked or cheated.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Thinking, Worry

• God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to bear upon our needs, and then by diffusing it throughout our deeds - deeds done with expectation that he and his Father will act with and in our actions.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Deeds Done, Expectations

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.52, Harper Collins

• In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Kingdoms, Facts

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.49, Harper Collins

• The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Unions, Christ

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.77, InterVarsity Press

• Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Father, Personality

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