Dallas Willard

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.

— Dallas Willard

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

— Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.

— Dallas Willard

“we can become like Christ by doing one thing—by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.”

— Dallas Willard

It's a wonderful thing to do an inductive study with our concordance.

— Dallas Willard

“Last words of his mother to his father: "Keep eternity before the children.”

— Dallas Willard

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

— Dallas Willard

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

— Dallas Willard

“Every Christian must strive to arrive at beliefs about God that faithfully reflect the realities of his or her life and experience,…

— Dallas Willard

We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it…

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Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It's…

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Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is…

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“God’s presence is everywhere around us. God is able to penetrate intertwine himself within the fibers of the human self in such…

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Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.

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The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do…

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“It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness…

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Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of…

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“The Disciplines of Christ-likeness The third side of our triangle is made up of spiritual disciplines. These are special activities, many engaged…

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All of the spiritualities that are now clamoring for attention, from explicit Satanism to what we hear on Oprah, are concerned with…

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The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast…

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“It is well known how hard it is to provide a benign order within human means. For the problem, once again, is…

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“He comes where we are, and he brings us the life we hunger for. An early report reads, “Life was in him,…

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“anxiety is just groundless and pointless. It occurs only as a hangover of bad habits established when we were trusting things—like human…

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When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a…

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“In the Gospels, by contrast, “the gospel” is the good news of the presence and availability of life in the kingdom, now…

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“Multitudes are now turning to Christ in all parts of the world. How unbearably tragic it would be, though, if the millions…

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“Jesus never expected us simply to turn the other cheek, go the second mile, bless those who persecute us, give unto them…

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“The first fruit of love is the musing of the mind on God. He who is in love, his thoughts are ever…

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Jesus came among us to show and teach the life for which we were made. He came very gently, opened access to…

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“Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, and loneliness. You will see that the world is not on…

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What Paul is clearly saying is that if anyone is worthy of being saved, they will be saved. At that point many…

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“Recently a pilot was practicing high-speed maneuvers in a jet fighter. She turned the controls for what she thought was a steep…

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Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent.

— Dallas Willard

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

— Dallas Willard

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

— Dallas Willard

Business is a primary arrangement on God's part for people to love one another and serve one another.

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At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life.

— Dallas Willard

One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

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The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

— Dallas Willard