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I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word. — Dallas Willard

Heroism, generally, is totally out of place in the spiritual life, until we grow to the point at which it would never be thought of as heroism anyway. — Dallas Willard

The prospering of God's cause on earth depends upon his people thinking well. — Dallas Willard

When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, "Now what are we going to do about the darkness?" It's gone! — Dallas Willard

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible. — Dallas Willard

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life. — Dallas Willard

Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego. — Dallas Willard

We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat. — Dallas Willard

We were built to count, as water is made to run downhill. We are placed in a specific context to count in ways no one else does. That is our destiny. — 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

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ. — Dallas Willard

Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power. — Dallas Willard

It is always a personal negotiation, as — Dallas Willard

God's address is at the end of your rope. — Dallas Willard

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. — Dallas Willard

You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent. — Dallas Willard

Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work? — 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

What is thinking? It is the activity of searching out what must be true, or cannot be true, in the light of the given facts or assumptions. — Dallas Willard

And if you are already flying upside down and don't know it, your cleverness will do you little good. — Dallas Willard

Reality is what you can count on. — Dallas Willard

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it. — 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

God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character. — Dallas Willard

People who love one another can be silent together.12 — Dallas Willard

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become. — Dallas Willard

Knowing the 'right answers' does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they're true. — Dallas Willard

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a thoughtful and informed one. — Dallas Willard

At the center of care for the heart is the love of God. This must be the joyful aim of our life. — Dallas Willard

Hell is not an 'oops!' or a slip. One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God. — Dallas Willard

Last words of his mother to his father: Keep eternity before the children. — Dallas Willard

They were to bring the presence of the kingdom and its King into every corner of human life simply by fully living in the kingdom with him. — Dallas Willard

The Kingdom Among Us is simply God himself and the spiritual realm of beings over which his will perfectly presides - as it is in the heavens. — Dallas Willard

We forgive someone of a wrong they have done us when we decide that we will not make them suffer for it in any way. This — 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

Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs. — Dallas Willard

In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation. — Dallas Willard

Other kingdoms are still present on earth along with the kingdom of the heavens. That is the human condition. — Dallas Willard

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food. — Dallas Willard

Belief is when your whole being is set to act as if something is so. — Dallas Willard

Spiritual formation in Christ moves toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his. — Dallas Willard

Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these. — Dallas Willard

Greatest need of collective humanity - is renovation of our heart. — Dallas Willard

Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning. — Dallas Willard

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple. — Dallas Willard

God does not 'love' us without liking us ... — Dallas Willard

To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's. — Dallas Willard

Recall, now, that the kingdom of God is the range of his effective will: that is, it is the domain where what he prefers is actually what happens. And — Dallas Willard

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance — Dallas Willard

We are becoming who we will be - forever. — 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

The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral. — Dallas Willard

Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time. The — Dallas Willard

They then easily moved on to the faith-destroying, even blasphemous idea that everything that happens in this world is caused by God. — Dallas Willard

What we can accomplish as good as it may be does not compare to what God can accomplish — Dallas Willard

Why is it that we look upon our salvation as a moment that began our religious life instead of the daily life we receive from God? — Dallas Willard

Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters. — Dallas Willard

Crooked thinking, unintentional or not, always favors evil. — Dallas Willard

Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke ... — Dallas Willard

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them. — Dallas Willard

The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are. — Dallas Willard

An obsession merely with doing all God commands may be the very thing that rules out being the kind of person that he calls us to be. — Dallas Willard

Circumstances and other people are not in control of an individual's character or of the life that lies endlessly before — Dallas Willard

Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation. — 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

Our task in ourselves and in others is to transform right answers into automatic responses to real-life situations. — Dallas Willard

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life. — Dallas Willard

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace ... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off. — Dallas Willard

It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine
simply because it resembled the counterfeit. — Dallas Willard

Keep eternity before the children. — Dallas Willard

The first act of love is always the giving of attention. — Dallas Willard

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it. — Dallas Willard

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear. — Dallas Willard

Prayer is, above all, a means of forming character. It combines freedom and power with service and love. What — Dallas Willard

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together. — Dallas Willard

Sit in the companionship of God - the one who shows up and can be seen. — Dallas Willard

Worship is at once the overall character of the renovated thought life and the only safe place for a human being to stand. — Dallas Willard

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness. — Dallas Willard

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward. — Dallas Willard

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness — Dallas Willard

When Jesus directs us to pray, "Thy kingdom come," he does not mean we should pray for it to come into existence. — Dallas Willard

We live from our depths - most of which we do not understand. Do — Dallas Willard

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind. — Dallas Willard

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard

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. — Dallas Willard

Practice routinely purposeful kindnesses and intelligent acts of beauty. — Dallas Willard

Love is not God, but God is love. It is who he is, his very identity. — Dallas Willard

Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. — Dallas Willard

Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them. — Dallas Willard

Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition. — Dallas Willard

Method is always tied to subject matter, and in dealing with life in general there is no such thing as a single scientific method. — Dallas Willard

I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.' — Dallas Willard

Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you. — Dallas Willard

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires. — Dallas Willard

What God gets out of our lives - and, indeed, what we get out of our lives - is simply the person we become. It — Dallas Willard

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. — Dallas Willard

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

There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve. — Dallas Willard

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort. — 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