If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.
DALLAS WILLARDRuthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
-
-
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 -
We don’t have to be brilliant.
DALLAS WILLARD -
The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon it, then we are slaves of our body and its feelings. Only misery lies ahead.
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 they’re doing something good. Really, they’re just deluding themselves.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
DALLAS WILLARD -
What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Relations between parents and children and siblings and mates. This is not external. We can’t separate them.
DALLAS WILLARD -
A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.
DALLAS WILLARD -
As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
DALLAS WILLARD -
The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him.
DALLAS WILLARD -
In one way or another, it is a common mistake to think transformation is all in the will. And it isn’t! It’s in the mind – how we think, what occupies our minds, and so forth. It’s in our feelings. It’s in our body.
DALLAS WILLARD -
We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.
DALLAS WILLARD -
In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.
DALLAS WILLARD -
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Even professing Christians, by and large, devote to their spiritual growth and well-being a tiny fraction of the time they devote to their body, and it is even tinier fraction if we include what they worry about.
DALLAS WILLARD -
That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.
DALLAS WILLARD -
It’s just stunning to watch churches struggle to get mission statements when there it is, the Great Commission, and they should simply do what it says.
DALLAS WILLARD -
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
DALLAS WILLARD -
Why doesn’t God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
DALLAS WILLARD -
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
DALLAS WILLARD -
There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
DALLAS WILLARD -
God’s aim in human history is the creation of an inclusive community of loving persons, with himself included as its primary sustainer and most glorious inhabitant.
DALLAS WILLARD