"The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said."
- Dallas Willard
"Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him."
"Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as a point of contact between heaven and earth, a kind of Jacob’s l..."
"To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives."
"Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do."
"I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it."
"I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word."