Dallas Willard Quotes

The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring the soul.

Clinical depression is an extreme form of a 'bad mood.'

It's important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self.

Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.

The cautious faith that never saws off a limb on which it is sitting, never learns that unattached limbs may find strange unaccountable ways of not falling.

To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives.

Kingdom obedience is kingdom abundance

Grace is not just about forgiveness but about life.

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

What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.

There is absolutely nothing in what Jesus himself or his early followers taught that suggests you can decide just to enjoy forgiveness at Jesus' expense and have nothing more to do with him.

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.

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

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.

The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.

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

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

The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low.

We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.

Churches are not the kingdom of God, but are primary and inevitable expressions, outposts, and instrumentalities of presence of the kingdom among us. They are 'societies' of Jesus.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

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.

What is reality? The answer Jesus gives to this question is: God and his kingdom. That is what you can count on and what you have to come to terms with.

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.

The different parts of the automobile like the ignition switch, the various buttons, the steering wheel - the interfaces between the driver and the machine - is our spirit or heart.

A leader enables people to love and honor the role they play in the organization or group they are part of

Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities it supervises and interacts with

The true saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on takeoff.

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

The Great Commission is still the mission statement of the Church.

Grace is opposed to earning, but not to effort.

We don't have to be brilliant.

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.

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.

The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

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

Hearing God is about the very specific issue of what it means to live with guidance in our life.

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

And the God who hears is also the one who speaks. He has spoken and is still speaking. Humanity remains his project, not its own, and his initiatives are always at work among us.

The soul's order is re-established in God through the law.

God will meet us and help us.

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

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

When we are formed inwardly, outer issues do become much more manageable.

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

You really can't justify anything else but giving your whole attention to spiritual formation in Christ.

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.

Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.