Quotes by T. A. Willard

“I don't know if I can trust again. How do I make my heart and mind work together? My heart wants to leap while my brain is saying run for my life.””

“Oh sweetie, you won’t die an old maid. Maybe an old baker, but not a maid.””

“The miracle is not that God loves me; it would be a miracle if he didn’t love me, because he is love. That is God’s basic nature”

“During the Commonwealth period in England (1649–1660), antinomianism was present among high Calvinists who maintained that an elect person, being predestined to salvation, need not keep the moral law and doesn’t even need to repent. No one should be urged to repent, therefore. Others have said “that good works hinder salvation, and that a child of God cannot sin; that the moral law is altogether abrogated as a rule of life; that no Christian believeth or worketh any good, but that Christ only believeth and worketh [good].”[9] The Effect on Spiritual Formation Now, you have only to think for a moment to see what a disaster this will be for spiritual formation and the development of character. It amounts to rejecting it entirely except insofar as it may be done to you by God, passively. And you have only to glance briefly at the behavior of professing Christians currently to realize the practical outcome of holding the law and obedience to the law to be irrelevant to the life of faith in Christ.[10] The basic practice of Western Christianity today is, I fear, strongly antinomian. Here is a true story from the current Christian scene. Test our theology on it: A man”

“Again, I think this is a gift, something you are either born with or not. Shit always ran off my back when I was a kid. I didn’t let much get to me. My parents divorced, we lived in a trailer park, and I worked hard for everything I had, but I never felt angry or resentful about any of it. It was just the way things were. I learned early on that there are things you can’t control in life”