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
“The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by… — Dallas Willard Human soul 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
There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and… — Dallas Willard Action 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 Cautious Copy Share Image
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style… — Dallas Willard Christ 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… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time… — Dallas Willard Believer Copy Share Image
He [Peter after the resurrection] now understood that he and the church were to exercise a transcendent power that did not depend… — Dallas Willard Church 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 Good life 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
History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal… — Dallas Willard Christian Copy Share Image
We need to understand that Jesus is a thinker, that this is not a dirty word but an essential work, and that… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no… — Dallas Willard Age Copy Share Image
“I routinely watched Dallas, like no one I had encountered before or since, wipe clean people’s vision of who God was, what… — Dallas Willard Christianity 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 Adventure Copy Share Image
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's… — Dallas Willard Body Copy Share Image
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading… — 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
“Our destiny is to join a tremendously creative team effort, under unimaginably splendid leadership, on an inconceivably vast plane of activity, with… — 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
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or… — Dallas Willard Access Copy Share Image
“Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action.” — Dallas Willard Bible Copy Share Image
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. — Dallas Willard Assumption Copy Share Image
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the… — Dallas Willard Darkness Copy Share Image
What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on… — Dallas Willard Reality Copy Share Image
We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all… — Dallas Willard Christian Copy Share Image
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 Christ 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
“The fruit of the Spirit, in contrast, gives a sure sign of transformed character. When our deepest attitudes and dispositions are those… — Dallas Willard Fruit of the spirit Copy Share Image
Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn't work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes… — Dallas Willard Body Copy Share Image
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and… — Dallas Willard Character Copy Share Image
Education (the institution) has now adopted values, attitudes, and practices that make any rigorous understanding of the human self and life impossible. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the lifwe of Jesus.… — Dallas Willard Biblical Copy Share Image
And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project,… — Dallas Willard Humanity 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