Dallas Willard Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.

  Dallas Willard

  Christian, Jesus, Live Life

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.11, Harper Collins

• My central claim is that we can become like Christ by doing one thing -- by following him in the overall style of life he chose for himself.

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  Style, Christ, Claims

• As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

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  Mature, Christ

• Spiritual formation for the Christian basically refers to the Spirit-driven process of forming the inner world of the human self in such a way that it becomes like the inner being of Christ himself.

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  Christian, Spiritual, Self

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.16, Tyndale House

• If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we're just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.

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  Christian, Character, Priorities

  Source: renovare.org

• The needed transformation is very largely a matter of replacing in ourselves those idea systems of evil (and their corresponding cultures) with the idea system that Jesus Christ embodied and taught and with a culture of the kingdom of God.

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  Jesus, Ideas, Evil

• God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

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  Heart, Thinking, Wings

• The union Christ had with the Father was the greatest that we can conceive of in this life-if indeed we can conceive of it.

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  Father, Unions, Christ

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.77, InterVarsity Press

• My central claim is that we become like Christ by doing one thing-by following Him in the overall style of life He chose for Himself. If we have faith in Christ, we must believe that He knew how to live. We can, through faith and grace, become like Christ by practicing the types of activities He engaged in, by arranging our whole lives around the activities He Himself practiced in order to remain constantly at home in the fellowship of the Father.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Believe, Home

• When we receive God's gift of life by relying on Christ, we find that God comes to act with us as we rely on him in our actions.

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  Our Actions, Christ, Gifts Of Life

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.44, Harper Collins

• The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution of character which proceeds by changing people from the inside through ongoing personal relationship to God in Christ and to one another. It is one that changes their ideas, beliefs, feelings, and habits of choice, as well as their bodily tendencies and social relations. It penetrates to the deepest layer of their soul. External, social arrangements may be used to this end, but they are not the end, nor are they a fundamental part of the means

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  Jesus, Heart, Character

• Contemporary American churches in particular do not require following Christ in his example, spirit, and teachings as a condition of membership-either of entering into or continuing in fellowship of a denomination or a local church.... Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have not yet decided to follow Christ.

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  Teaching, Following Christ, Church

• It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.

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  Responsibility, Looks, Followers

• Thoughts are the place where we can and must begin to change. There the light of God first begins to move upon us through the word of Christ, and there the divine Spirit begins to direct our will to God and his way.

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  Moving, Light, Way

  Dallas Willard, Gary Black, Jr. (2016). “Renewing the Christian Mind: Essays, Interviews, and Talks”, p.9, HarperCollins

• Does Christ commend the famous 'apathy' of the Stoic or the Buddhist elimination of desire? Far from it. The issue is not just feeling or desire, but right feeling or desire, or being controlled by feeling or desire.

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  Buddhist, Issues, Feelings

• When we think of "taking Christ into the workplace" or "keeping Christ in the home," we are making our faith into a set of special acts. The "specialness" of such acts just underscores the point - that being a Christian, being Christ's isn't thought of as a normal part of life.

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  Christian, Home, Thinking

• Everyone receives spiritual formation, just as everyone gets an education. The only question is whether it is a good one or a bad one. We need to take a conscious, intentional hand in the developmental process. We need to understand what the formation of the human spirit is, and how it can best be done as Christ would have it done. This is an indispensable aspect of developing a psychology that is adequate to human life.

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  Spiritual, Hands, Psychology

• Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

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  Church, Facts, Problem

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.16, Harper Collins

• Paul followed Jesus by living as He lived. And how did he do that? Through activities and ways of living that would train his whole personality to depend upon the risen Christ as Christ trained Himself to depend upon the Father.

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  Jesus, Father, Personality

• Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

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  Spiritual, Moving, Ideas

  Dallas Willard, Keith Meyer, Bruce McNicol, Keith Matthews (2014). “The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation”, p.54, Tyndale House

• Disciples are those who have been so ravished with Christ that others want to be like them.

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  Want, Christ, Disciple

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.17, InterVarsity Press

• In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

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  Spiritual, Character, Deeds

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

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Transformation

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

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  Jesus, Teaching, Taken

• Obedience to Christ is the easy way, take my yoke.

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  Yoke, Way, Christ

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