Dallas Willard Quotes

Spiritual transformation into Christ-likeness in not going to happen unless we act... What transforms us is the will to obey Jesus Christ.

Get somebody else for Jesus Christ and you will get a new vision of life, a new vision of what it means.

We are Jesus Christ's; we belong to him. But even more, we are increasingly him. He moves in and commandeers our hands and feet, requisitions our minds and tongues. We sense his rearranging: debris into the divine, pig's ear into silk purse. He repurposes bad decisions and squalid choices. Little by little, a new image emerges.

A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

The only way to get change is not through the courts or - heaven forbid - the politicians, but through a change of human consciousness and through a change of heart. Only through the arts - music, poetry, dance, painting, writing - "can we really reach each other.

God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

When God transforms the life of just one leader, that leader can transform a church. When one church is transformed, you can transform a community. And when enough churches are thriving, you can affect a region, a country, and eventually the entire world with the positive, life-changing power of Jesus Christ and the redeeming and restoring work of his people.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.

Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give you a fearless heart where he can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let him transform you by his love and so enable you to receive his affection in your whole being.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.

Each encounter with Jesus changes our life.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

Our spirits are united with Jesus at salvation, but our minds are being progressively transformed into his nature.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

If Jesus can live in you and you are no different than the world around you, something got short circuited because Jesus makes a difference.

You can laugh at Christianity; you can mock and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions, because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

Jesus is knocking at your door. Take hold of the better life by letting him into your life. Make him the boss of your life. It'll change everything.

God is the one to be praised, not our transformation.

The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.