Dallas Willard Life Quotations

So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

Look at what is happening here and think of it in terms of real life and how it affected the life of Joseph, the life of David, or Jesus, or Paul.

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.

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.

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

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.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Those who have been touched by forgiveness and new life and have thus entered into God's rule become, like Jesus, bearers of that rule.

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.