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
In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset… — 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
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among… — 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
God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast… — 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
Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is… — 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
We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
So when Jesus directs us to pray, “Thy kingdom come,” he does not mean we should pray for it to come into… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. — 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
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