The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn't! It's… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or… — 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
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
Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and… — 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
“Gradually there crept into my mind the realization that God sees this all the time. He sees it, experiences it, knows it… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we… — 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
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 on” the Lord Jesus Christ. It is repeatedly discussed in the Bible under three essential aspects, each inseparable from the other, all interrelated. This process could be presented in a “golden triangle” of spiritual transformation, for… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
"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 do. Rather, out of the eternal freshness of his perpetually self-renewed being, the heavenly Father cherishes the earth and each human being upon it. The fondness, the endearment, the unstintingly affectionate regard of God toward all… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
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 Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging… — Dallas Willard Copy Share
