Dallas Willard Quotes

Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment.

For the soul to be well, it needs to be with God.

I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.

I wrote 'Soul Keeping' because we are taught more about how to care for our cars than how to steward our souls. But you cannot have an impactful life with an impoverished soul.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind. We are three dimensional beings: body, mind, spirit.

I certainly believe that being in contact with one's spirit and nurturing one's spirit is as important as nurturing one's body and mind.

We no longer have the luxury of spending our energy on anything that does not lead us and our families to Christ.

though humility and acknowledgement of one's real failings is good, the gratuitous eating of worms not put before us by God does not nourish our souls a bit - merely in fact upsets the spiritual tummy.

Faith and works are necessary to our spiritual life as Christians, as soul and body are to our natural life as men; for faith is the soul of religion, and works the body.

Most of us are far too busy for our own spiritual good.

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.

In the Lord's discourse on spiritual nourishment, we hear Him says: "Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life." (John 6:27). He then continued by talking about the true bread from Heaven the bread of God, and the bread of life. (John 6:32-35). Here He appeals to the soul for its nourishment and our thoughts to the spiritual way so as not to occupy our minds with the body and its needs.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word.

An ongoing relationship with God through His Word is essential to the Christian's consistent victory!

The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

People who are obsessed with God have an intimate relationship with Him. They are nourished by God's Word throughout the day because they know that forty minutes on Sunday is not enough to sustain them for a whole week, especially when they will encounter so many distractions and alternative messages.

If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed.