At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“So my first point is simply: life in Christ has to do with obedience to his teaching.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You have been given a ministry and your ministry is not your job and your job and your ministry are two things… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“There is no question of doing is purely on our own. But we must act. Grace is opposed to earning, not to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You have established the earth and it continues. All things stand this day according to your directions. For all things are your… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Jesus offers himself as God’s doorway into the life that is truly life. Confidence in him leads us today, as in other… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ from a life that is one with his resurrected reality day by… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God. — Dallas Willard 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 Copy Share Image
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else… — 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
“Union in action with the triune God is Christian spirituality. That is where the life is drawing its substance from God.” — 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
Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“It also explains why the gospel of the kingdom has such transforming power in human life. For that gospel opens the kingdom… — 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
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
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
Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would… — 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 Copy Share Image
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
When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always… — 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
