Dallas Willard Quotes

All that seems earth is hell or heaven.

He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.

If Jesus is king in heaven then the Kingdom of God is in heaven. If Jesus is king, reign on earth then the Kingdom of Heaven is on earth. If Jesus is king in my heart, then the Kingdom of God is in me.

Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell.

Let the meek have the kingdom of heaven. The strong shall rule on earth.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.

Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men.

The kingdom of God is not going to arrive on Air Force One.

Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves.

Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

The wolf is living for the earth.

So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: “On earth as it is in heaven.” With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence