Dallas Willard Quotes

Real life begins by committing yourself completely to Jesus Christ.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don't be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

When Jesus says you must leave your family to follow Him, he doesn't necessarily mean physically. He means leave your dependence on them, make an emotional break with them.

Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.

I think it's difficult to be a Christian anywhere, at least to be a committed Christian - I think that demands a lot from a person no matter their field of work, and certainly working in Hollywood is no exception.

Would I consider myself alt-right, if you want to ask that question? No, I don't. Not even a little bit. I think I am a pretty devout Christian, and I treat my walk with Christ very seriously - very seriously - in a way that I'm constantly looking at the things I do and how that affects me existentially.

I support Christ and following Him, and that's what I support.

A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will grow a great church.

When we commit ourselves to the pursuit of holiness, we need to ensure that our commitment is actually to God, not simply to a holy lifestyle or a set of moral values ... offer yourselves to God, and in doing that commit yourselves to the pursuit of holiness in order to please Him.

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

Religious people love to hide behind religion. They love the rules of religion more than they love Jesus. With practice, Condemners let rules become more important than the spiritual life.

To follow Jesus means putting him first, and stripping ourselves of all the things that oppress our hearts.

...churchgoing is not synonymous with personal spirituality. There are some people who get so busy in church worship and projects that they become insensitive to the pressing human needs that sourround them, contradicting the very precepts they profess to believe deeply.

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

Do you look forward to going to church, or is it something you do out of obligation?

Attending church does not necessarily mean living the principles taught in those meeting. You can be active in a church but inactive in its gospel.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

When a mother asked her small child how he fell out of bed, he answered, "Because I wasn't in far enough." Let me just say in passing that it has been my experience that most people who fall out of the Church do so because they were not in far enough.

I have been able to be just a good light to people and just share His love. I wake up every day and [try to] honor God in everything that I do and I may fall short sometimes, but all I want to do is love Him.

Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

Serve God and live; serve these other gods and died.

If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't!