I do emphasize that we cannot just get out of the Bible a definition of the soul. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the… — 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
We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often… — 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
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“the aim of spiritual formation is the transformation of the self, and that it works through transformation of thought, transformation of feeling,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's… — 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
All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“But spirituality in many Christian circles has simply become another dimension of Christian consumerism. We have generated a body of people who… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Some years ago a leading media personality had a high-level conference in Aspen, Colorado, on the topic of evil. (Shouldn’t that meeting… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them… — 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
