Dallas Willard Quotes

We often miss hearing God's voice simply because we aren't paying attention.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.

God is our true Friend, who always gives us the counsel and comfort we need. Our danger lies in resisting Him; so it is essential that we acquire the habit of hearkening to His voice, or keeping silence within, and listening so as to lose nothing of what He says to us.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

If I am not, may God place me there; if I am, may God so keep me. I should be the saddest in all the world if I knew that I were not in the grace of God. But if I were in a state of sin, do you think the Voice would come to me? I would that every one could hear the Voice as I hear it.

We often leave the most precious personal direction of the Spirit unheard because we do not record and respond to the first promptings that come to us when the Lord chooses to direct us.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.

If you want to find your voice, you need to hear the voice of God.

Built into you is an internal guidance system that shows you the way home. All you need to do is heed the voice.

Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.

If I thought the Lord was speaking to me I'd check myself into Bellevue, and I think you should too.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

I’m a really big believer that we all have this voice inside of us, and that voice is God talking to us, and we are all magical, and we all have something as specific to do as our fingerprint. And everybody should go out and do that. And I think between the ages of 15 and 32, don’t worry about getting married, don’t worry about settling down, don’t worry about having a baby. Give birth to yourself.

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing.

No one need fear to listen to the voice of God unless he has already made up his mind to resist it.

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do.

God is speaking to all of us, all the time. The question is not, to whom does God talk? The question is, who listens?

My reality is that God speaks to you every day. There's an inner voice, and when you hear it, you get a little tingle in your medulla oblongata at the back of your neck, a little shiver, and at two o'clock in the morning, everything's really quiet and you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: Write this down. It is just an inner voice, and you trust it. That voice will never take you to the desert.

But I'm not ready to stop listening to the screwed-up inner voice that's been ordering me around for a lifetime. My head thinks it can kill me... and go on living without me.