Dallas Willard Quotes

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• The most important thing in your life is not what you do; it's who you become. That's what you will take into eternity.

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  Important, Life Is, Eternity

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• We don't believe something by merely saying we believe it, or even when we believe that we believe it. We believe something when we act as if it were true.

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  Believe, Don't Believe, Ifs

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• Discipleship is the process of becoming who Jesus would be if he were you.

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  Jesus, Becoming, Would Be

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• 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.

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  Christian, Jesus, Live Life

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

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• The first act of love is always the giving of attention.

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  Love, Giving, Attention

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

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  Spiritual, Practice, People

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.288, InterVarsity Press

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Important, Life Is

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

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  Achievement, Life Is, Accomplish

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• One of the hardest things in the world is to be right and not hurt other people with it.

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  Hurt, People, World

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• Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

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  Hurrying

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.144, InterVarsity Press

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• Consumer Christianity is now normative. The consumer Christian is one who utilizes the grace of God for forgiveness and the services of the church for special occasions, but does not give his or her life and innermost thoughts, feelings, and intentions over to the kingdom of the heavens. Such Christians are not inwardly transformed and not committed to it.

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  Christian, Giving, Heaven

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

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  Mind, Select, Ultimate Freedom

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.76, Tyndale House

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• Every church needs to be able to answer two questions. First, what is our plan for making disciples? And second, does our plan work?

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  Two, Church, Able

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  When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It was with an idea that God could not be trusted and that she must act on her own to secure her own well-being.

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  Ideas, Sticks, Satan

  Dallas Willard, Keith Meyer, Bruce McNicol, Keith Matthews (2014). “The Kingdom Life: A Practical Theology of Discipleship and Spiritual Formation”, p.53, Tyndale House

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• You can live opposite of what you profess, but you cannot live opposite of what you believe.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• A disciple is a learner, a student, an apprentice – a practitioner… Disciples of Jesus are people who do not just profess certain views as their own but apply their growing understanding of life in the Kingdom of the Heavens to every aspect of their life on earth.

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  Jesus, Views, People

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Great Omission: Reclaiming Jesus’s Essential Teachings on Discipleship”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• 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.

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  People, Kind, Never Forget

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• 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

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• Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.

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  Feelings, Masters, Servant

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Renovation of the Heart: Putting On the Character of Christ”, p.98, Tyndale House

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• Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning.

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  Effort, Grace, Earning

  Dallas Willard (2012). “Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God”, p.254, InterVarsity Press

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

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  Character, Decision, May

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• Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

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  Jesus, Expression, Doe

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• We're not here to prove we're right; we're here to help people.

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  People, Helping, Prove

  Source: renovare.org

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• I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

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  Discipline, Lasts, Last Words

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• The will is transformed by experience, not information.

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  Coaching, Information, Transformed

  Dallas Willard (2014). “Living in Christ's Presence: Final Words on Heaven and the Kingdom of God”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

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