The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We know we can't be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — 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 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
Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ. — 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
“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
Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of… — 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
Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Great faith, like great strength in general, is revealed by the ease of its workings. Most of what we think we see… — 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 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
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
Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Many Christians were suddenly prepared to look at traditional methods of spiritual formation. They could not help but see that spiritual growth… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But—for good reasons rooted deeply in the nature of the person and of personal relationships—his preferred way is to speak, to communicate:… — 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 very small percentage of those in the church stand behind a pulpit or sport certain kinds of identifiable clothing. The actual… — 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
“The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life—if indeed we can conceive… — 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… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many… — 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
The spirit is the part that is supposed to consciously direct everything in the person, including the soul. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“spiritual formation is a matter of reworking all aspects of the self.” — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The single most obvious trait of those who profess Christ but do not grow into Christ-likeness is their refusal to take the… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“So my fifth point is this: spiritual formation is the process whereby the inmost being of the individual takes on the quality… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“...Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today... They were, instead, to… — 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
