Dallas Willard (IVP)

Daily wisdom from Dallas Willard (1935-2013), a philosophy professor at USC and influential author on Christian spiritual formation. Via @ivpress

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"Church growth is not just more Christians but bigger Christians, flush with Christ’s character."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Renovation of the Church'

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"Success is redefined by the spread of kingdom presence throughout the community."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Renovation of the Church'

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"It is personal ambition that drives the machinery of 'success' in the church context, which is what comes out in the many dimensions of character failure that now are all too familiar."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Renovation of the Church'

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"To increase in grace and knowledge is to open your life ever more fully to the presence/action of God with us in all we are and do."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"Obedience to Jesus Christ is not how we earn anything; it is simply the place where the kingdom of God is in relation to us. It is where we know it and we know him."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"Discipleship may be loosely described as staying as close to Jesus Christ as possible."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"Discipleship is a natural part of confidence in Jesus as he really is."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"Salvation, being saved, is then not a meager, merely human existence here, but life with a heavenly account flush in the transferred merits of Christ."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"Eternal life in the individual does not begin after death, but at the point where God touches the individual with redeeming grace and draws them into a life interactive with himself and his kingdom."

—Dallas Willard, 'Life in the Spirit'

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"What we lose by excluding the distinctively feminine from 'official' ministries of teaching and preaching is of incalculable value."

—Dallas Willard, 'How I Changed My Mind About Women in Leadership'

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"Through memorization God’s words reside in our body, in our social environment, in the constant orientation of our will and in the depths of our soul."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Scripture by Heart'

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"Our life takes a godly and good direction when our mind is consciously occupied with God’s written words."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Scripture by Heart'

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"Memorization of Scripture is one way of ‘taking charge’ of the contents of our conscious thoughts, and of the feelings, beliefs and actions that depend on them."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Scripture by Heart'

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"The human mind is quite small and limited in terms of what can consciously occupy it, but we have some choice as to what is present there. We must choose well."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Scripture by Heart'

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"The simplest and most effective way of mind renewal in Christ is memorization of Scripture: large passages of it as well as individual verses."

—Dallas Willard, from the foreword of 'Scripture by Heart'

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"To handle the things of God without worship is always to falsify them."

—Dallas Willard, 'Renewing the Christian Mind'

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"The cure for too-much-to-do is solitude and silence, for there we find that we are safely more than what we do."

—Dallas Willard, 'Renewing the Christian Mind'

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"We can't all just get along. Rather, we have to become the kinds of persons who can get along."

—Dallas Willard, 'Renewing the Christian Mind'

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"Silence well practiced is like the wind of eternity blowing upon us."

—Dallas Willard, 'Renewing the Christian Mind'

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"(Spiritual disciplines) are methods by which we obey the command to 'put off' the old person and to 'put on' the new person who is in the likeness of Christ."

—Dallas Willard, 'Renewing the Christian Mind'