Quotes from 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
The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
- Dallas Willard
As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.
- Dallas Willard
Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
- Dallas Willard
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
- Dallas Willard
To depart from righteousness is to choose a life of crushing burdens, failures, and disappointments, a life caught in the toils of endless problems that are never resolved.
- Dallas Willard
Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.
- Dallas Willard
Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.
- Dallas Willard
The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.
- Dallas Willard
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
- Dallas Willard
Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.
- Dallas Willard
When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.
- Dallas Willard