Quote

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Dallas Willard

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Standing
Effects
Life
Welcoming
Transformation
Welcome
Effect
Entire

More quotes by Dallas Willard

Image
To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Dallas Willard
Image
Sometimes we get caught up in trying to glorify God by praising what He can do and we lose sight of the practical point of what He actually does do.
Dallas Willard
Image
A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?
Dallas Willard
Image
Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness
Dallas Willard
Image
Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education it's just a matter of which one you get.
Dallas Willard
Image
Projects of personal transformation rarely succeed by accident, drift, or imposition.
Dallas Willard
Image
Theology is just what you really think about God, and if you're going to do that, you'd better use your mind and not just let it be a receptacle - a catch-all for whatever beliefs happen to be passing by.
Dallas Willard
Image
Feelings are good servants, but they are disastrous masters.
Dallas Willard
Image
Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
Dallas Willard
Image
If our gospel does not free the individual up for a unique life of spiritual adventure in living with God daily, we simply have not entered fully into the good news that Jesus brought.
Dallas Willard
Image
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.
Dallas Willard
Image
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
Dallas Willard
Image
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.
Dallas Willard
Image
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.
Dallas Willard
Image
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
Dallas Willard
Image
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it.
Dallas Willard
Image
When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!
Dallas Willard
Image
Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
Dallas Willard
Image
The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.
Dallas Willard
Image
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
Dallas Willard