Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We cannot handle injustice by finding more ways to impose what is in fact "right" on people. It has to come from… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed… — 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
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
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching… — 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
Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The Bible defines almost nothing because it isn't a book for scholars and philosophers or free thinkers. It's a book for people… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The acid test for any theology is this: Is the God presented one that can be loved, heart, soul, mind, and strength?… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time… — 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
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of… — 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
Many people get what they need from church attendance because the Word is preached, and the rituals are carried on, and God… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we… — 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
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
