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
When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It… — 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
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
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one… — 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
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
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I was in a fascinating meeting where one man had been in China recently. A Chinese professor has found evidence that Christians… — Dallas Willard 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
The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do… — 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