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
So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best… — 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
God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such… — 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
To glorify God means to think and act in such a way that the goodness, greatness, and beauty of God are constantly… — 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 cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is no cure for the social battles that we fight in our culture - and there's so much grief around race,… — 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
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness — 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
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
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
That's the secret of Jesus. You watch Jesus and you see he never did "withdraw" and then "attack." All of the time… — 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
That's the illusion - the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out - and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We don't save our soul and leave our emotions and our feelings and our body and all the rest of it out.… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The real issue relating to exclusiveness is whether or not the Christian actually has a relationship with God, a presence of God,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change. There the light of God first begins to move upon… — 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
