Dallas Willard Quotes

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

Make disciples. Surround them in the reality of the Trinity in a fellowship of disciples. Teach them to do everything Jesus says.

We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God’s great universe.

The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from…Circumcision of the heart.

Of course, we do the righteous deed because of our redemption, not for our redemption.

I’m practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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.

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.

We know we can’t be spiritually transformed by just focusing on the will.

God’s address is at the end of your rope.