Dallas Willard Quotes

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

Whatever happens, happens. It's all a part of God's plan.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

it was God's act and not mine.

Destiny is not designed by mere mortals like us. It is crafted by God.

You can't stop what God wants to happen.

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by neces-sity.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

If God wants it, it will happen.

The popular culture says . . . Do what you do, your life is predestined, like the installment plan on your house. There's not much you can do about it. Make your payments, live it, get sick, die, don't make any trouble. It is the Master Charge of destiny. Try to get your high credit rating.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Where it all will end, knows God.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

I'm a fatalist.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.