Dallas Willard Quotes

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

I'm on a missionary journey to become the best version of myself.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

Who you are becoming is more important than what you are accumulating.

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

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

We are apt to think that everything that happens to us is to be turned into useful teaching; it is to be turned into something better than teaching, into character. We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

We have real difficulty here because everyone thinks of changing the world, but where, oh where, are those who think of changing themselves? People may genuinely want to be good, but seldom are they prepared to do what it takes to produce the inward life of goodness that can form the soul. Personal formation into the likeness of Christ is arduous and lifelong.

Now is the best time to start becoming the person we eventually want to be—not only 20 years from now but also for all eternity.

Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth.

The universe always gives you what you need to grow into the person you are destined to become.

The ordinary focus on what they're getting. The extraordinary think about who they're becoming.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.

The ultimate goal is to be an interesting, useful, wholesome person. If you're successful on top of that, then you're way ahead of everybody.

What you become is what counts.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Being somebody who wants to be religious doesn't make me perfect and doesn't make me necessarily any better than anybody else. It maybe makes me better than I would have been if I didn't have that level.

Human improvement is from within outward.