We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
Dallas WillardThe 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 WillardThose who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.
Dallas Willard