I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.” — 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
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
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with… — 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
The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength?… — 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
Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Some years ago a leading media personality had a high-level conference in Aspen, Colorado, on the topic of evil. (Shouldn’t that meeting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them… — 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
