God's aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which… — Dallas Willard Children Copy Share Image
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ from a life that is one with his resurrected reality day by… — Dallas Willard Change Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one… — 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 Life Copy Share Image
Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of… — Dallas Willard Forgiveness Copy Share Image
“Nothing less than life in the steps of Christ is adequate to the human soul or the needs of our world. Any… — Dallas Willard Human soul Copy Share Image
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In his case,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental… — Dallas Willard Anger Copy Share Image
We should, to begin with, think that God leads a very interesting life, and that he is full of joy. Undoubtedly he… — Dallas Willard Abundance Copy Share Image
“But Jesus’ own gospel of the kingdom was not that the kingdom was about to come, or had recently come, into existence.… — Dallas Willard Christianity Copy Share Image
Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of… — Dallas Willard Christian Copy Share Image
No one need worry about our getting the best of God in some bargain with him, or that we might somehow succeed… — Dallas Willard Agility Copy Share Image
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It… — 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… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
In the area of social righteousness we cannot be right on the inside and not do it. We cannot! Of course we… — 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
If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable… — Dallas Willard Character Copy Share Image
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or… — 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 Change Copy Share Image
“The missing note in evangelical life today is not in the first instance spirituality but rather obedience. We have generated a variety… — Dallas Willard Life Copy Share Image
We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our… — Dallas Willard Augustine Copy Share Image
“Our most serious failure today is the inability to provide effective practical guidance as to how to live the lifwe of Jesus.… — Dallas Willard Biblical Copy Share Image
And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project,… — Dallas Willard Humanity 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 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
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“No good tree produces bad fruit, nor any bad tree good fruit…. The good person, from the good treasured up in his… — Dallas Willard Good person 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
What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Indeed, by taking the title Son of man, he staked his claim to be all that the human being was originally supposed… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of… — Dallas Willard Burden Copy Share Image
What we can do with these means (our own unassisted strength) is still very small compared to what we could do in… — Dallas Willard Acting Copy Share Image
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