Dallas Willard Quotes

"Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God." ~ Dallas Willard

 "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." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life." ~ Dallas Willard

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

 "One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The first act of love is always the giving of attention." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The ultimate freedom we have as human beings is the power to select what we will allow or require our minds to dwell upon." ~ Dallas Willard

 "You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The key, then, to loving God is to see Jesus, to hold him before the mind with as much fullness and clarity as possible. It is to adore him." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The will is transformed by experience, not information." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness." ~ Dallas Willard

 "We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together." ~ Dallas Willard

 "As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it." ~ Dallas Willard

 "I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word." ~ Dallas Willard

 "God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character." ~ Dallas Willard

 "God's address is at the end of your rope." ~ Dallas Willard

 "We are becoming who we will be-forever." ~ Dallas Willard

 "You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don't think him competent." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The people to whom we minister and speak will not recall 99 percent of what we say to them, but they will never forget the kind of persons we are." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning." ~ Dallas Willard

 "We are built to live in the kingdom of God. It is our natural habitat." ~ Dallas Willard

 "The hardest thing about leadership is the intimacy it requires." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego." ~ Dallas Willard

 "Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone." ~ Dallas Willard

 "There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve." ~ Dallas Willard