Dallas Willard Quotes

The problem I have with all this religion stuff is that I can't relate to it. I think most people got into 'cos it gave them something to do on a Sunday, but since all the shops are now open it isn't required as much.

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

Why do we people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute?

We are a temple-building and a temple-attending people.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

I was raised Catholic and I have a lot of respect for the good in the Catholic Church. But I don't go to church.

It's hard to rest knowing that millions of people merely carry on religious traditions but don't actually reach God.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

Come take a look at one of the oldest human urges- religion. After all, the only thing that makes us screwier is sex.

The Sisters were Southern Baptist, and they went to church on Saturdays and Sundays, and most other days, too.

In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.

If the Lord's people were only half as eager to be filled with the Spirit as they are to prove that they cannot be filled, the church would be crowded out.

People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

The expiatory church of La Sagrada Família is made by the people and is mirrored in them. It is a work that is in the hands of God and the will of the people.

He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.