Dallas Willard Quotes

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

If you will transform your mind, God will transform your life.

We will not know Him, until we become like him.

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

Making conclusions about life is a sure way to deny yourself the possibility of a human being transforming himself into the Divine.

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

You can't have a physical transformation until you have a spiritual transformation.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

We shall find that the spheres God brings us into are not meant to teach us something but to make us something.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

God loves you just the way you are, but he refuses to leave you that way.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

I myself have noticed my growing resemblance to a daffodil.

You get to the point where you realize that unless you, yourself, become more of the change, you can't create too much change.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

If you want to be an agent of change, it starts with you and what you're made of.