You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.” — 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
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his. — 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
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 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 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
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 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
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
Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth… — 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
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
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
