Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Spiritual formation in Christ is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual (the heart, will, or spirit) takes on the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“the governing assumption today, among professing Christians, is that we can be “Christians” forever and never become disciples.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The disciple is one who, intent upon becoming Christ-like and so dwelling in his “faith and practice,” systematically and progressively rearranges his… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The single most obvious trait of those who profess Christ but do not grow into Christ-likeness is their refusal to take the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate:… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“the aim of spiritual formation is the transformation of the self, and that it works through transformation of thought, transformation of feeling,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word “disciple”? A disciple is a learner,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The organized churches must become schools of spiritual discipline where Christians are taught how to own without treasuring (Matt. 6:21); how to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The greatest need you and I have-the greatest need of collective humanity-is renovation of our heart. That spiritual place with in us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The church of Jesus Christ is not necessarily present when there is a correct administration of the sacrament and faithful preaching of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“So my fifth point is this: spiritual formation is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual takes on the quality… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“...Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today... They were, instead, to… — 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
Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange… — 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
It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior… — 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
