Dallas Willard Quotes

Knowing is higher than believing. Knowing means that there is NO doubt.

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

I don't believe. I know.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

It’s critical that we know what we believe, no matter what we feel...that we know what is true, no matter what we see.

Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not.

We have to believe it enough that it changes how we live.

Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed any more.

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

I do not believe...I know.

As a man believes, so he will act.

Belief is knowing what you believe. Conviction is knowing why you believe it.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

A belief may be larger than a fact.

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is - it is her shadow.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

I see, I know, I believe, I am undeceived.

We can't assume what we don't believe.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true

in all the world there is not someone who does not believe something.

I do not recall another period when ‘faith’ was as popular as it is today. ‘If only we believe hard enough we'll make it somehow.’ So goes the popular chant. What you believe is not important. Only believe... What is overlooked in all this is that faith is good only when it engages truth; when it is made to rest upon falsehood it can and often does lead to eternal tragedy. For it is not enough that we believe; we must believe the right thing about the right One.