428 Quotes by Dallas Willard

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

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.

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

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

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

Suppose we have a motor and our transmission doesn't work or our clutch or whatever. Then our body, our motor, just takes us down the road. Or our brakes don't work! We must have a coordination system.

Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

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

Does the Gospel I preach and teach have a natural tendency to cause people who hear it to become full-time students of Jesus? Would those who believe it become his apprentices as a natural 'next step'? What can we reasonably expect would result from people actually believing the substance of my message?