The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God Quotes.

1. "Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

2. "We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all his creatures is the natural outflow of what he is to the core - which we vainly try to capture with our tired but indispensable old word "love"."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

3. "What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

4. "[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)"
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

5. "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, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

6. "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."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

7. "Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

8. "The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

9. "Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest in or even knowledge of. Prayer simply dies from efforts to pray about ‘good things’ that honestly do not matter to us. The way to get to meaningful prayer for those good things is to start by praying for what we are truly interested in. The circle of our interests will inevitably grow in the largeness of God’s love. --Dallas Willard"
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God

10. "So when Jesus directs us to pray, Thy kingdom come, he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. Rather, we pray for it to take over at all points in the personal, social, and political order where it is now excluded: On earth as it is in heaven. With this prayer we are invoking it, as in faith we are acting it, into the real world of our daily existence."
- Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God