Dallas Willard Quotes

I have felt the inspiration of the living God directing me in my labors.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

As always, I am receptive to whatever doors God may open.

I believe that whatever I do, after I've asked for guidance and direction from God, that whatever the results, these are the results of His guidance.

'I have always asked God to guide me in each of my tasks.

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that I could give you or that you could give your students that would immediately facilitate mastering the ability to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Nor do I believe that the Lord will ever allow someone to conceive a pattern that would invariably and immediately open the channels of spiritual communication. We grow when we labor to recognize the guidance of the Holy Ghost as we struggle to communicate our needs to our Father in Heaven in moments of dire need or overflowing gratitude.

The key to getting out of the boat is hearing the voice of God.

I don't really want people looking to me for inspiration. I just want to be a sign along the way that points toward Heaven.

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, along the way!' One day, as I was singing this song, I felt as if the Lord was saying to me, 'Lead you along what way?' I realized then that if you don't have a plan, God doesn't have anything specific to direct you in.

I believe that when we ask to be led, we are led, and there's nothing too small or esoteric for spiritual help.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

My opinion is that I follow what the Lord says. Or I try to. Others are following what they want to do, basically. They are living for their self. I am living for God.

The Divine Impulse - it's always safe to follow it. We've got to trust it and go wherever it takes us. Especially women.

I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

I walk with the Lord, just trusting day by day and week by week and month by month, what the next season holds and what the best next move for me is.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.