Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life. — Dallas Willard Guidance Copy Share Image
“If we do seek him, he will certainly find us, and then we, ever more deeply, find him.” — 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 Change Copy Share Image
The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another. — Dallas Willard Blessing 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
“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with… — 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 Jesus Copy Share Image
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely… — Dallas Willard Character Copy Share Image
The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver… — Dallas Willard Automobile Copy Share Image
We renovate the heart by, of course, changing it, but we can't do that, really, without changing the other essential parts of… — Dallas Willard Change 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 Religion 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
“the aim of spiritual formation is the transformation of the self, and that it works through transformation of thought, transformation of feeling,… — Dallas Willard Change 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 Bible 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
Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in… — Dallas Willard Affair Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — Dallas Willard Character Copy Share Image
“Yet today, from countless paintings, statues, and buildings, from literature and history, from personality and institution, from profanity, popular song, and entertainment… — Dallas Willard Books 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
In thus sending out his trainees, [Jesus] set afoot a perpetual world revolution: one that is still in process and will continue… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. — Dallas Willard Body Copy Share Image
“The life and words that Jesus brought into the world came in the form of information and reality.” — Dallas Willard Life Copy Share Image
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning. — Dallas Willard Attitude Copy Share Image
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action.” — Dallas Willard Effort Copy Share Image
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. — Dallas Willard Destiny 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
Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle… — 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
Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not… — Dallas Willard Apathy Copy Share Image
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into… — Dallas Willard Eternity Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else… — Dallas Willard Christ Copy Share Image