Quotes from Dallas Willard

The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires.

If we are to use our minds rightly, we must live in an attitude of constant openness and learning.

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

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

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

If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.

The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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.

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.

We are invited to make a pilgrimage – into the heart and life of God.

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.

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.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

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

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

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.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

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

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.

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

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

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.

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