Religion Quotes by Dallas Willard

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

— Dallas Willard

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

— Dallas Willard

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.

— Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

— Dallas Willard

“the focus of spiritual formation is the formation of our spirit.”

— Dallas Willard

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

— Dallas Willard

We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

— Dallas Willard

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

— Dallas Willard

We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from…

— Dallas Willard

The Bible, of course, is not a theology book. It is certainly not a philosophy book. So we have to derive the…

— Dallas Willard

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a…

— Dallas Willard

“The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety…

— Dallas Willard

Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would…

— Dallas Willard

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

— Dallas Willard

If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable…

— Dallas Willard

“Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.”

— Dallas Willard

“But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who…

— Dallas Willard

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of…

— Dallas Willard

“The Disciplines of Christ-likeness The third side of our triangle is made up of spiritual disciplines. These are special activities, many engaged…

— Dallas Willard

A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess…

— Dallas Willard

The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people…

— Dallas Willard

Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of…

— Dallas Willard

Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth…

— Dallas Willard

The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast…

— Dallas Willard

“It also explains why the gospel of the kingdom has such transforming power in human life. For that gospel opens the kingdom…

— Dallas Willard

“A very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual…

— Dallas Willard

“Jesus offers himself as God’s doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other…

— Dallas Willard

“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive…

— Dallas Willard

“While it is in one sense a result of God’s presence within us, the New Testament also describes a process involved in…

— Dallas Willard

“In the Gospels, by contrast, “the gospel” is the good news of the presence and availability of life in the kingdom, now…

— Dallas Willard

“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions…

— Dallas Willard

What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many…

— Dallas Willard

“washing and little food rituals. The battle in the Gospels focuses on those. When Jesus tries to turn it to things that…

— Dallas Willard

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

— Dallas Willard

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

— Dallas Willard

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.

— Dallas Willard

The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul.

— Dallas Willard

“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.”

— Dallas Willard

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

— Dallas Willard

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

— Dallas Willard