Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition. — 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
The transformation of the social world is at its heart the transformation of personal relations. That's the key to transforming society in… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with… — 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
The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation cannot, in the nature of the case, be a 'private' thing, because it is a matter of whole-life transformation. You… — 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
