Dallas Willard Ideas Quotations

Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

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.

The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said.

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

The truly powerful ideas are precisely the ones that never have to justify themselves.

There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.

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.

Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

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.