Quotes about Truth
We are required to "bet our life" that the visible world, while real, is not reality itself.
— Dallas Willard
Truth reveals reality, and reality can be described as what we humans run into when we are wrong, a collision in which we always lose.
— Dallas Willard
When our students accept the call of a servant leader to further the cause of Christ, it is time to begin considering how they can escape the strictly Christian subculture in order to shine their lights of truth into the dark places in our world. This will take great care and wisdom.
— Dallas Willard
And in this truth lies the secret of the easy yoke: the secret involves living as he lived in the entirety of his life—adopting his overall life-style. Following "in his steps" cannot be equated with behaving as he did when he was "on the spot." To live as Christ lived is to live as he did all his life.
— Dallas Willard
Pastors now are mistakenly seen, and perhaps even see themselves, as teaching what Christians are supposed to believe (perhaps what we had better believe), not what is known and what can be known through fair inquiry.
— Dallas Willard
Whatever your situation, there is nothing more important on earth than to dwell in the knowledge of Christ and to bring that knowledge to others.
— Dallas Willard
Witnessing is not thought of as bringing knowledge, but as attempts to convince people to do things. When you divorce faith from knowledge, you wind up in the position of trying to get people to do things, not of providing them with a basis on which they can then decide how to live and how to lead their lives together. Witnessing has turned into a kind of process of bothering people, and very few people witness because of that.
— Dallas Willard
I don't believe God messes with our minds. He is not mean, and if he has something to say to me, he will say it.
— Dallas Willard
If we are to know the abundant provision of God's unlimited resources, we must also understand how Satan works to rob us of that experience. He does so by deceit.
— Dallas Willard
It cannot be stressed too much that the permanent address at which the word of God may be found is the Bible.
— Dallas Willard
Put his words into practice and find them to be true.
— Dallas Willard
John 3:16 is not about forgiveness of sins, no matter the guy with rainbow hair in the end zone who's holding up that sign. John 3:16 is about life now.
— Dallas Willard