Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“You will consume much more grace by leading a holy life than you will by sinning, because every holy act you do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“God’s care for humanity was so great that he sent his unique Son among us, so that those who count on him… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is knowledge of God and the spiritual nature of man, as well as other types of reality..., that are not reducible… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“There is an obvious Great Disparity between, on the one hand, the hope for life expressed in Jesus—found real in the Bible… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In a world apart from God, the power of denial is absolutely essential if life is to proceed. The will or spirit… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“In the Gospels, by contrast, “the gospel” is the good news of the presence and availability of life in the kingdom, now… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the smartest man who ever lived. He is now supervising the entire… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“May you experience grace—God acting in your life, in your thoughts, in your feelings, in your rest. May his face shine upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It would be of course a low voltage spiritual life in which prayer was chiefly undertaken as a discipline, rather than as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
God inducts us into the eternal kind of life that flows through himself. He does this first by bringing that life to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But Jesus’ own gospel of the kingdom was not that the kingdom was about to come, or had recently come, into existence.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today it is the skeptics who are the social conformists, though because of powerful intellectual propaganda they continue to enjoy thinking of themselves as… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in our “putting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share
“Sabbath is a way of life (Heb 4:3; 9-11). It is simply "casting all your anxiety on Him," to find that in actual fact… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
“The Spirit makes Christ present to us and draws us toward his likeness. It is as we thus behold the “glory of the Lord”… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. — Dallas Willard Copy Share
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes thought to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. — Dallas Willard Copy Share
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. — Dallas Willard Copy Share
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community as its… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in acting in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
