Quotes from Dallas Willard
You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.
- Dallas Willard
A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.
- Dallas Willard
My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.
- Dallas Willard
We are invited to make a pilgrimage — into the heart and life of God.
- Dallas Willard
The aim of God in history is the creation of an all-inclusive community of loving persons with God himself at the very heart of this community as its prime Sustainer and most glorious Inhabitant.
- Dallas Willard
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.
- Dallas Willard
Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.
- Dallas Willard
We are unceasing spiritual beings with an eternal destiny in God's great universe.
- Dallas Willard
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
It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
- Dallas Willard
This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.
- Dallas Willard
There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
- Dallas Willard