“The Disciplines of Christ-likeness The third side of our triangle is made up of spiritual disciplines. These are special activities, many engaged… — 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
“Accordingly, I believe the most adequate description of prayer is simply, “Talking to God about what we are doing together.” That immediately… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading… — 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
“(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with regard to many particular matters that concern individual… — 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
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
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
