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
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
“Love, as Paul and the New Testament presents it, is not action—not even action with a special intention—but a source of action.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then… — 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
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to 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 first fruit of love is the musing of the mind on God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent. — 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
