What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on… — Dallas Willard Reality 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
“Grace is opposed to earning, not to effort. And it is well-directed, decisive, and sustained effort that is the key to the… — Dallas Willard Effort Copy Share Image
“You will consume much more grace by leading a holy life than you will by sinning, because every holy act you do… — Dallas Willard Grace Copy Share Image
“How to combine faith with obedience is surely the essential task of the church as it enters the twenty-first century.” — Dallas Willard Faith Copy Share Image
Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to… — Dallas Willard Body 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
“We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the… — Dallas Willard Belief Copy Share Image
“May you experience grace—God acting in your life, in your thoughts, in your feelings, in your rest. May his face shine upon… — Dallas Willard Blessings Copy Share Image
See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is… — Dallas Willard Community Copy Share Image
A great part of the disaster of contemporary life lies in the fact that it is organized around feelings. People nearly always… — Dallas Willard Christian 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… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Much of our problem is not, as is often said, that we have failed to get what is in our head down… — Dallas Willard Head and heart 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
God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God.… — Dallas Willard Christ 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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 more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The “interior castle” of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by… — Dallas Willard Human soul Copy Share Image
I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything,… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
It's just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply… — Dallas Willard Church Copy Share Image
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons, with Himself included in that community… — Dallas Willard Fellowship Copy Share Image
Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard Christ Copy Share Image
When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we… — Dallas Willard Action Copy Share Image
The relation of redemption and sanctification would be the ongoing relationship between the driver and God who is directing her. Now, if… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“legalists and theological experts with “lips close to God and hearts far away from him” (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic… — Dallas Willard Advice Copy Share Image
