Dallas Willard Quotes

To follow Christ is to become more like Him. It is to learn from His character.

No one can truly know Christ unless they follow him in life.

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ.

Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

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

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.

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

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

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

The first lesson in Christ's school is self-denial.

If we are Christians, we must look like Christ - this is my deep conviction.

Discipleship never consists in this or that specific action: it is always a decision, either for or against Jesus Christ.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

That's God's number one purpose, to make us like Christ.

The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

The Bible isn't meant to just inform us, it is meant to transform us. 40 Days in the Word will teach you how to be not just a hearer of the Word, but a doer of the Word!

To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. To follow Jesus means picking up rhythms and ways of doing things that are often unsaid but always derivative from Jesus, formed by the influence of Jesus. To follow Jesus means that we can't separate what Jesus is saying from what Jesus is doing and the way that he is doing it. To follow Jesus is as much, or maybe even more, about feet as it is about ears and eyes" (The Way of Jesus, Eugene H. Peterson, 22).

Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

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

So, you want to be like Christ? Me too. But that kind of godliness won't just happen by hanging around a church or thinking lofty thoughts three or four times a day or learning a few verses of Scripture. It will take more - much more. Disciplining ourselves will require the same kind of focused thinking and living that our Master modeled during His brief life on earth.