The first act of love is always the giving of attention. — Dallas Willard Acts of love Copy Share Image
When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. — Dallas Willard Accidents Copy Share Image
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard Failure Copy Share Image
The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“You give to God not through your accomplishments, but through the person you become.” — Dallas Willard Accomplishments Copy Share Image
One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not… — Dallas Willard Apathy 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
The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into… — Dallas Willard Eternity Copy Share Image
Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
We have churches full of people who profess all kinds of stuff that they don't believe. They think that by professing it… — 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 Choices Copy Share Image
Spiritual formation in a Christian tradition answers a specific human question: 'What kind of person am I going to be?' It is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“God’s presence is everywhere around us. God is able to penetrate intertwine himself within the fibers of the human self in such… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Unless you have already put God first, for example, what you will have to do to be financially secure, impress other people,… — Dallas Willard Commandments Copy Share Image
“You may be very sure that if your sincere intent is to glorify God and bless others in your efforts, and you… — Dallas Willard Hand Of God 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 Change 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 Bible 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 Change Copy Share Image
What we think is, in the adult person, very much a matter of what we allow ourselves to think, and what we… — Dallas Willard Adults Copy Share Image
“Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word “disciple”? A disciple is a learner,… — Dallas Willard Christianity Copy Share Image
Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens is at hand' (Matt 3:2, 4:17, 10:7). This is a call for us to reconsider… — Dallas Willard Eternal Copy Share Image
“Dear Father always near us, may your name be treasured and loved, may your rule be completed in us— may your will… — Dallas Willard Nature Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, the kingdom of God is not essentially a social or political reality at all. Indeed, the social and political realm, along… — Dallas Willard Kingdom 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 Confidence Copy Share Image
“Gradually there crept into my mind the realization that God sees this all the time. He sees it, experiences it, knows it… — 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 Christianity Copy Share Image
“Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in the first chapter of his wonderful book Life Together, has a discussion of how Christians never meet one-on-one; they… — 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 Church growth 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 Arrangements Copy Share Image
