"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We must understand that God does not "love" us without liking us - through gritted teeth - as "Christian" love is sometimes… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible. — Dallas Willard 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 Copy Share Image
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to… — 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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition. — 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 Copy Share Image
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That… — 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
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness — 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
God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to… — Dallas Willard 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
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
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 Image
“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 Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
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 Image
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. — 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 chose for… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image