Dallas Willard Quotes

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true.

I do not live in a world where people can walk on water, or still a storm, or take five loaves of bread and feed 5000 men plus women and children. If that is a requirement of my commitment to Jesus, I find it difficult to stretch my mind outside the capacities of my world view.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

The ultimate ground of faith and knowledge is confidence in God.

One must have faith in the best of men and distrust the world.

In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

Satan will battle you with doubt and unbelief, but God has victory waiting for you if you'll keep trusting and believing Him.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.

Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.

If you believe, take the first step, it leads to Jesus Christ. If you don't believe, take the first step all the same, for you are bidden to take it.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

Anything you think you know about about God, that you can't find in the person of Jesus, you have reason to question.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.

Do you think you would ever have heard of Christianity if the Apostles had gone out and said, ‘I believe in consensus?’

He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.

Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and entertaining to consider that at least once in the world's history those words might have been said with complete conviction, and that was on the eve of the Resurrection.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

To me, these biblical stories are just so many fish stories, and I'm not specifically referring to Jonah and the whale. I need indisputable proof of anything I'm asked to believe.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.