Dallas Willard Quotes

A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

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

Our mission as Christians is to conform ourselves evermore to Jesus as the model of our lives.

Because I am not yet living up to what Jesus expects me to be in those red letters in the Bible, I always define myself as somebody who is saved by God's grace and is on his way to becoming a Christian. (...) Being saved is trusting in what Christ did for us, but being Christian is dependent on the way we respond to what he did for us.

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.

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

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.

I say, if you want to enjoy exquisitely, become a Latter-day Saint, and then live the doctrine of Jesus Christ.

Especially among Christians in positions of wealth and power, the idea of reading the Gospels and keeping Jesus' commandments as stated therein has been replaced by a curious process of logic. According to this process, people first declare themselves to be followers of Christ, and then they assume that whatever they say or do merits the adjective "Christian".

The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.

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

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

I never saw a fruit-bearing Christian who was not a student of the Bible.

The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!

It’s hard to remember that Jesus did not come to make us safe, but rather to make us disciples, citizens of God’s new age, a kingdom of surprise.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

No one can truly see Christ, and drink in the influence of his character, and not be a Christian at heart.

He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else.

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

We want to live a simple life, ... I want to emphasize I'm not an environmentalist who goes to church. I want my principal identity as a Christian to be someone who follows Jesus. I want to work for peace and justice, care for God's environment, be a good neighbor and friend and live the right life.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

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

Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.